Anne E. Kitch

Happy are the people who know the festal shout!   they walk, O Lord, in the light of your presence.They rejoice daily in your Name;   They are jubilant in your righteousness.  Psalm 89:15-16 I sit quietly in an in-between time sinking… Continue reading

Give thanks to the God of heaven    for his mercy endures forever.  Psalm 136:26 I look at the two boxes and various other items stacked by the door and contemplate how I might get them to the car in one… Continue reading

O Lord my God, my Savior,     by day and night I cry to you.Let my prayer enter into your presence;     incline your ear to my lamentation.  Psalm 88:1-2 I am halfway down the block before I remember that I wasn’t… Continue reading

For you O Lord, are good and forgiving   and great is your love toward all who call upon you.  Psalm 86:5 The gift arrived in the mail the other day. Not snail mail, but email. Not the mug itself, but… Continue reading

Your word is a lantern to my feet  and a light upon my path.     Psalm 119:105 My daughter and I rush out the door into the early morning and hustle into the car when it dawns on us almost simultaneously.… Continue reading

He split the hard rocks in the wilderness     and gave them drink as from the great deep.  Psalm 78:15 There is something almost endearing about this teenage squabbling. I can hear my daughters from three rooms and a flight of… Continue reading

I think of God, I am restless,     I ponder, and my spirit faints.   Psalm 77:3 There I go again. My mind has wandered off the prayer path. I start off just fine, even joyful, as I enter a quiet time… Continue reading

You spread a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me.  Psalm 23:5 I wake up with two or three dialogues going in my head. Still trying to solve yesterday’s dilemmas, my brain simultaneously imagines scenarios for… Continue reading

But as for me, my feet had nearly slipped;     I had almost tripped and fallen;Because I envied the proud     and saw the prosperity of the wicked.   Psalm 73:2-3 “Who is that boy, what’s his name?” I demand. My daughter shakes… Continue reading

In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge;   let me never be ashamed.   Psalm 71:1 “What are the conversations you are afraid to have with God?” The question will not leave me alone. It was posed by the Bishop to… Continue reading