A sermon preached by Anne E. Kitch Grace Church, Allentown PA Good Friday 2015 Sometimes… you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you Sometimes… writes poet David Whyte you come to a place whose only task… Continue reading

Good Friday My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? and are so far from my cry and the words of my distress? Psalm 22:1 And what about the why? Not Have you forsaken me? Will you forsake me?… Continue reading

Maundy Thursday Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come before you; hide not your face from me in the day of my trouble. Psalm 102:1 I hear the clock ticking in the early hours of the quiet house… Continue reading

Wednesday in Holy Week Hear my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my petition. Listen to me and answer me; I have no peace, because of my cares. Psalm 55:1-2 In the evening and in the morning I… Continue reading

Tuesday in Holy Week The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord accepts my prayer. Psalm 6:9 I turn the corner in my familiar route home only to be thwarted. A roadblock. It was not here on my way to… Continue reading

Monday in Holy Week Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:11 I step out into the cold to clip some branches from the forsythia. It is time. No blossoms yet,… Continue reading

Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent As the deer longs for the water-brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God. Psalm 42:1 I wake from a nap disoriented and thirsty. Desperately thirsty. When was the last time I… Continue reading

Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent Let me hear of your loving-kindness in the morning, for I put my trust in you; show me the road that I must walk, for I lift up my soul to you. Psalm… 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 “Mom, will you help me with my English essay?”… Continue reading

Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent Feast of the Annunciation Will you not give us life again, that your people may rejoice in you? Psalm 85:6 Before I head out the door, I zip up my coat and make… Continue reading