“This sentence especially touches me: “When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.” The image of drawing up his feet and peacefully dying has such a poignancy about it. It represents a death many of us would hope for, yet, denied to so many, especially in the time of the continuing pandemic, war, and violence.”
“I wonder…
I really do…
if we could buttonhole Mark
in a corner of the café
where the company of saints
sips espresso”
“As the sun rises into the sky
on the songs of sparrows,
let me think on God, and praise God’s Name.”
We mark out our days, commemorating this and them, and by the word of the Bible time is sanctified: three days here, forty there, seven weeks of seven, and a thousand years under God’s unblinking gaze. Sabbaths sigh, and Wednesdays teeter on the hinge of the week; we can look forward or back.
“Today, may I be open to what lies ahead –
your presence with me
blessing me
showering me with mercy
redeeming and renewing me
today and always.”
by Tom Sine An Unprecedented Housing Crisis President Biden extended housing eviction for more than 7 million households in the United States until the end
God of all the earth, our country is celebrating its 245th anniversary today. And we who live in this nation have much to be grateful
It was just an ordinary day. The boys were doing catly things: Phoebe sleeping in a cool part of the bedroom, Dominic sleeping on the
a whisper of a breeze tries to
lift the cloth, as though the Holy
Spirit would scatter
our wafers like manna, grace like dew,
the sacrament of love sown upon
souls gathered on the lawn.
One of our greatest, God-given callings on this earth is our stewardship of God’s creatures who depend upon us. As part of this obligation, I pray regularly for dogs, cats and all needy creatures.