ADPiTigergurl, I was Chaplain in my chapter one year. We used a lot of inspirational verses or poetry at the time. Now, you can just google it - then, we had various books of approved verse.
We had one really horrible month, with sickness & midterms, and a lot of sisters barely speaking to each other. I read
Jabberwocky. Everyone was stunned for a moment, then started to laugh. As one sister said, "You just kept reading it so straight, even though everyone was laughing hysterically!" I finished by thanking the Lord for the gift of laughter, for the good and the bad times of sisterhood, and that if it took Jabberwocky to start it, well, thanks for Lewis Carroll or something like that. The rest of the term, you'd hear someone say, "Hey - watch that vorpal sword!" or "brillig this!" and it was great that one silly poem would bring so much laughter back into the sisterhood.
PM me if you have any questions. I'll sharpen the vorpal sword.
