Have Mercy
Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem and ten lepers cry out to him for mercy. When Jesus sees them he instructs that they go show themselves to the priests. As they go, they are made clean. One man, a Samaritan, realizing he is healed on the way, turns back to Jesus and falls at […]
My Need – May 13, 2019
Lord God, mercy is in your hands, pour me a little. And tenderness, too. My need is great. Beauty walks so freely and with such gentleness. Impatience puts a halter on my face and I run away over the green fields wanting your voice, your tenderness, but having to do with only the sweet grasses […]
Homeward Bound
I confess that I am failing with my Lenten disciplines. It is one thing to not keep my New Year’s resolutions; this seems weightier, a scarlet letter of shame etched on the heart. Oh how easily I stumble in life and find myself in the muck–something like the pigsty in today’s gospel story, often referred […]
The Unfailing Mercy – Dec. 21, 2018
“But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God’s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in […]
