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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 20h

A Haiku for Thanksgiving Weekend 🍁 Happy Thanksgiving weekend. Give thanks for bounty. God is good, indeed! #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 7:2 (Read it!) Steer clear of parties thrown by cackling fools. Their mirth is all mockery. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 7:2 (Read it!) Go to funerals For respect and for wisdom Yours is coming, too. #FridayHaiku 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 6:9 (Read it!) Look at your blessings; See God's rich bounty! Don't let your "wants" steal your joy. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The 18 year-old would be very surprised. But the 20 year-old me made the decisions that took me where I am today.

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Double Haiku 25 years later Panicked teacher told me with tears at school drop-off. "Towers down. Two planes." Glued to the TV all September eleven. Should have prayed instead. #FridayHaiku 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 (Read it!) 🕯️ In the Holy place Guard your steps. Be quiet. Keep your word. Honour God. #FridayHaiku

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 4:13 (Read it!) A Tanka Better be ruled by a poor and wise child, than by a foolish king who fires all his advisors. (Let the reader understand.) #FridayHaiku #FridayTanka

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (Read it!) On a chilly night or in a street fight, better have a friend with you. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 4:1 (Read it!) Power's on the side of the oppressors. That's the hist'ry of the world. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Haikuing Matthew 17:1-8 (Read it!) A Tanka on the Feast of the Transfiguration (yesterday) Jesus' face shines like the sun. Disciples old and new behold His glory. A Voice! "That's My Son. I love Him. Listen to Him." #FridayHaiku #FridayTanka 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 9:7 on Lammas Day (tomorrow, August 1) Almost Lammas day, the first Summer wheat harvest. Eat your bread with joy. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 3:12 (Read it!) So, be generous. Do good as long as you live. Share what God supplies. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It is so, so lazy. I'm never more tempted to say, "Fake news!", than when the MSM comments on religion.

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 4:1 (Read it!) Power's on the side of the oppressors. That's the hist'ry of the world. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, with Matthew 10:31 (Read it!) A Tanka The Preacher fears that man and beast are worth alike. Dust to dust. Worthless. A nobler Voice responds: "You're worth more than many sparrows." #FridayHaiku #FridayTanka ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 3:16-17 (Read it!) Under the sun you'll find wickedness in place of justice. Be patient. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (Read it!) Do good. Be happy. Enjoy your food and your work. Your life is God's gift. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 3:11 (Read it!) Eternity and beauty are built into us. But not sovereignty. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Part of the liturgy landed very differently this morning, in a way I had not anticipated. My mom passed away this week, and when we recited the Ten Commandments, and came to the fifth, "Honour thy father and thy mother", it dawned on me that I don't have either of them anymore. ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (Read it!) The Byrds said it best. "To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season." #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 (Read it!) A Tanka As despair joins the chat, we find our life's work is naught - like chasing wind! Is there hope for better things? Indeed there is! Just read on. #FridayHaiku #FridayTanka ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'll take that. Aslan is on the move. ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I am not surprised at this I've admired Charles Simeon for decades. ⚓ I'm closest to Charles Simeon (Evangelical). My wider constellation: John Keble, William Laud, Thomas Cranmer, Michael Ramsey. — "Which Anglican Theologian Are You?"

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 (Read it!) Fools walk in darkness, but are the wise much better off? Not in the end. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 (Read it!) Pleasure is a test. Wine, cash, entertainments, are hollow vanities. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 (read it!) Under the sun, the pursuit of wisdom is vain, like chasing the wind. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

When I was a child and already a baseball fan , I was sure that they remembered Cy Young by the Rivers of Babylon. youtu.be/GHDVErAq19A?...

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 A Tanka "It's all meaningless!", says the preacher king (not me!). "The toil and cycles - 'Sunrise, sunset' endlessly! It's all tedious vanity." #FridayHaiku #FridayTanka 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Shall I haiku the book of Ecclesiastes next? Would it be in Vain? #FridayHaiku 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:14 (Read it!) Like a gazelle on the mountains, the Song ends with joyful playfulness. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A Haiku in the Octave of Easter 1 Corinthians 5:7 Christ, our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Yet, He lives! Let's feast! #FridayHaiku 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

In 35+ years of pastoral ministry I have never run out of wine for communion. Until today. We were one short. I communed under one species for the first time in years. I certainly don't mind. 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A Haiku on Good Friday How the Christ is crushed! The Prince of life hangs dead. This outrage cannot stand! #FridayHaiku ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Luther. That checks out. 🕯️ (Simul justus et peccator) whichtheologianareyou.netlify.app?fbclid=IwdGR...

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I like to think that I'm contemplating these great things for the dancers (as well as for myself).

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:7 (with Mark 4:39. Read 'em!) A Haiku for Holy Week 🕯️ Death's waters can't quench Love; the sleeping Christ will rise and say, "Peace, be still!" #FridayHaiku

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Sung or said, every Sunday is Psalm Sunday! 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:8-10 (Read it!) Are the brothers wise or overbearing? Wall or door, what will she be? At last she speaks for herself: "I was a wall. Now I'm his." #FridayHaiku #FridayTanka ⚓

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

if i’m ever stabbed by senators please don’t name salads after me #haiku

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

New series of Nuns starts today, and my shop is finally restockedt and ready!

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:7 (Read it!) (A defective haiku) The Beatles weren't the first poets to say or sing, "Money can't buy me love." #FridayHaiku 🕯️

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My wife and I are thinking of watching The Count of Monte Cristo series. I struggle with scenes of cruelty, torture, etc. Should I go there? ⚓

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Every time we do the time change, people talk as if they keep uber-strict hours, never go to bed an hour late or get up an hour early.

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Richard Kootenayrev @kootenayrev.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:6 (Read it!) The LORD jealously guards the sealed Covenant, with Death and fierce Fire. #FridayHaiku ⚓

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