For the battered bereft beleaguered For the courageous compassionate committed For those who keep working for those who keep holding for those who keep vigil For the hungry the hurting the hopeful For all who have lost and all who… Continue reading

Easter Day Forth Christ came at Easter, like the risen grain, the one that for three days in the grave had lain, quick from the dead my risen Lord is seen: Love is come again like wheat that springith green.… Continue reading

Holy Saturday 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 morning arrives grief-laden the torment has not been washed… Continue reading

Good Friday I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; my heart within my breast is melting wax. Psalm 22:14 the way collapses deconstructs into fragments bereft of meaning love an echo mercy keening an… Continue reading

Maundy Thursday 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 143.8 Now comes the time… Continue reading

Wednesday in Holy Week And I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.” Psalm 55:7 As if the morning holds its breath pondering the way forward– duty, necessity, inevitability? Air… Continue reading

Tuesday in Holy Week Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; save me for your mercy’s sake. Psalm 6:4 my fingers enclose a touchstone of ashes the barest scent of holy oil foreshadowing an anointing for burial now the sacred path… Continue reading

Monday in Holy Week Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:11 Piercing through still bare trees morning sunlight dances like a stone skipped across the stream kissing new spring growth… Continue reading

Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent O God, I will sing to you a new song; I will play to you on a ten-stringed lyre. Psalm 144:9 My progress is arrested by the sight of forsythia bursting forth in… 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.… Continue reading