No One Knows Me

I look to my right hand

and find no one who knows me;

I have no place to flee to,

and no one cares for me.

I cry out to you, O LORD;

I say, “You are my refuge,

my portion in the land of the living.”

(Psalm 142:4-5)

Desolate stranger

As a child lost in a crowd.

Seen above (and on home-page mastheads): “Dawn and Dusk” by Shin-hee Chin in the current ECVA exhibition, “Recognition & Return.”

Readings are from Streams of Mercy: a meditative commentary on the Bible by Ann Kristin Haldors Fontaine (used with permission of the author).