Feb 23, 2013 | images of God, Lent, prayer
The grace and goodness of God flow like a clear wide stream through the wilderness, like a river through a canyon. Its waters are bountiful for the parched soul and the dusty traveler alike; its avenues are deep enough to carry the burdened barge. Let me dip my toes...
Feb 22, 2013 | images of God, Lent, poem
Ebenezer* mine Love sublime Stone of Help My life is thine Your presence staid Relieves my days And all the night From fear I’m saved Rock of hope Beloved Stone I mark my path By thee alone Ebenezer sweet By grace increase Courage to follow And peace replete *...
Feb 21, 2013 | death, Lent, prayer
Help us with death, Living Christ, for we are afraid and defiant of life’s ending. Help us through death, Living Christ, for we are uncertain and resistant to life’s changes. Help us in death, Living Christ, for we are near-sighted and lost on our way to...
Feb 20, 2013 | Lent, news, prayer
We are hurting, O my God, how we are hurting! See there: the mother mourning, the women protesting, the lives torn apart by war, the man facing his own death; the rage that consumes us and the conveniences we consume; the fears that send us to our guns, the deaths we...
Feb 19, 2013 | images of God, Lent, nature, psalm
The winter’s isolating chill is accented by gray skies; bundled bodies repeat the isolation as they turn up collars and down eyes to navigate the day’s cold. But O My God! Even gray is within the spectrum of your beauty! My soul delights to consider it! It...
