Good Friday Be not far from me for trouble is near, and there is none to help. Psalm 22:11 now stripped away now bare stillness now I hold keep watch for mercy Image credit: reicaden / 123RF Stock Photo Continue reading

Maundy Thursday My days pass away like a shadow, and I wither like the grass. But you, O Lord, endure for ever, and your Name from age to age. Psalm 102:11-12 I sit in silence and hear the echo of… Continue reading

Wednesday in Holy Week Day and night the watchmen make their rounds upon her walls, but trouble is in the midst of her Psalm 55:7 steps out of sync I walk in, through the everyday struggling also to keep to… Continue reading

Tuesday in Holy Week The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord accepts my prayer. Psalm 6:9 I fling unformed words of appeal I grasp at wisps of gratitude my way strewn with unruly prayers I am so small and… Continue reading

Monday in Holy Week The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:18 Now the way twists elusively familiar and utterly alien rock-strewn, convoluted, unimaginable There is no… Continue reading

Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent May there be no breaching of the walls, no going into exile, no wailing in the public squares. Psalm 144:15 I brace myself for what is to come, anticipating the difficulty ahead. The… Continue reading

Sermon preached at the Chrism Mass Diocese of Bethlehem March 22, 2018 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus… Continue reading

Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent Be not far away O Lord; you are my strength; hasten to help me. Psalm 22:18 As I wake and stretch into a new day, I find myself thankful for the exhaustion of… Continue reading

Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent But I still my soul and make it quiet, like a child upon its mother’s breast; my soul is quieted within me. Psalm 131:3 I look up from my book and realize a… Continue reading

Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent The heart of your word is truth; all your righteous judgments endure for evermore. Psalm 119:160 “I appreciate an unambiguous snowstorm,” I say to my husband early in the morning. Schools and businesses… Continue reading