Lenten Psalm of Awakening – Mar. 27, 2020
Come, O Life-giving Creator, and rattle the door latch of my slumbering heart. Awaken me as you breathe upon a winter-wrapped earth, gently calling to life virgin Spring. Awaken in these fortified days of Lenten prayer and discipline my youthful dream of holiness. Call me forth from the prison camp of my numerous past defeats […]
Psalm 119:18-24 – Mar. 26, 2020
Open my heart’s eyes, that I may see The wondrous blessings of creation. I am a sojourner on earth; May I know myself also as a spiritual being. My soul is consumed with an intense longing To be blessed and sustained by You, O Divine Lover. May I not be a bearer of disharmony, one […]
The Swan – Mar. 25, 2020
Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air – An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, Biting the air […]
Open My Eyes, That I May See – Mar. 24, 2020
Open my eyes, that I may see Glimpses of truth Thou hast for me; Place in my hands the wonderful key That shall unclasp and set me free. Silently now I wait for Thee, Ready my God, Thy will to see, Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine! –Clara H. Scott, hymn lyrics, 1895