minutes tick away turn into hours then days and silently within the forward push of time blossoms become tiny bulbs hidden baby mangoes soak in sun and sap swelling as the weeks slip by even without rain strips of clouds float northwardwhile we wait for dark onesto splash respitesomeday they will come somedayour Lord isContinue reading “Within the Forward Push of Time”
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Absolute Light
You, Lord, are Light: original essential light clear all the way through absolutely pure absolute with no dark edge no shading showing capriciousness or shallow inconsistency and yet — alive! Vital from core to cosmos filling space with Being the One Who Is and Was and Is To Come overarching time yet entering it therebyContinue reading “Absolute Light”
Choose the Light of Life!
He made a world from love of life and beauty, work and rest. For rest he made the night. For work, the day, and governing them both he made the light: a sun to silt the day with gold, sa moon to silver through the lovely dark.His hands plunged deep intomoist earth, newly made andContinue reading “Choose the Light of Life!”
Just What We Need
When our hands are empty, fill them up, we pray— not too much, not too hearty a ration, or we may topple and then fall.You set the table in desert landsas well as on mountaintops.We need you!When poverty strips awayour access to foodit’s you we call!And you come, Father, to your kidsand feed them withContinue reading “Just What We Need”
Gentle in the Storm
In the middle of this whirlwind may gentleness become the strong, long root that fixes me to what is true, that calls to othersto come to youto find that inner confidence,that deep ironic peace,that stands against the gale.Only you, living in me, can takemy frail impotency andempower it to healwhen all aroundinjustice rules and wipesContinue reading “Gentle in the Storm”
Prayer Like Waves
I’ve been crying out to you, my Lord, my Father and my King, over and over and over again like ocean waves rolling in to crash and humbly recede into the mass of other currents, like other prayers.This one overwhelming longingwill not let them stop. I beg:Please bring my loved ones homeinto your arms, intoContinue reading “Prayer Like Waves”
I Am Yours
Because you love me, forgave me, chose me and then sent me, want to use me, I bring the only offering I can: my self, my soul, my life. You set aside the Levites for yourself, a wave offering to you, committed to serve, a living sacrifice for ongoing worship.Continue reading “I Am Yours”
Light Reveals
It is only when shafts of light sent from the rising sun strike the long lean leaf of grass that you see how finely striped it is: perfectly paralleled veins tracing from stem to bowed leaf tips. Life stripes! You shine on us, Son, Lightthat brings life to your waiting world.You shine on us andContinue reading “Light Reveals”
To Shine with Power!
This gargantuan ball we call Earth twirls on its axis, never stopping. I’m glued to my point on its surface, watching as we leave the dark outer universe and swing slowly, gently into sunlight. Granulated gray cloud masses suddenly have rose underbellies—no! Now they’ve turned to neon gold!There was a star riding tangentto the crescentContinue reading “To Shine with Power!”
Psalm on Mean Street
LORD, you guide me into right pathways, chosen for me, leading me home. You said it. I believe it. But LORD, these are mean streets. The other travelers form cliques, gossip, unnerve me. And you mentioned level paths;there are potholes here, jagged and deep.They laugh when I fall.Tell them off, LORD — they are disgracingContinue reading “Psalm on Mean Street”
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