Blessed Is the One – Sept. 22, 2022
“I lost my way, I forgot to call on your name. The raw heart beat against the world, and the tears were for my lost victory. But you are here. You have always been here. The world is all forgetting, and the heart is a rage of directions, but your name unifies the heart, and […]
You Let Me Sing – Sept. 20, 2022
“You let me sing, you lifted me up, you have my soul a beam to travel on. You folded your distance back into my heart. You drew the tears back to my eyes. You hid me in the mountain of your word. You gave the injury a tongue to heal itself. You covered my head […]
Joy Unspeakable – Sept. 15, 2022
Joy Unspeakable erupts when you least expect it, when the burden is greatest, when the hope is gone after bullets fly. It rises on the crest of impossibility, it sways to the rhythm of steadfast hearts, and celebrates what we cannot see. -Barbara A. Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, p. 200
God Be in My Understanding – Sept. 12, 2022
God be in my head, and in my understanding; God be in my eyes, and in my looking; God be in my mouth, and in my speaking; God be in my heart, and in my thinking. –A Catholic Book of Hours and Other Devotions, compiled by William Storey, p. 97