The Ground I Build On – Nov. 26, 2019
Unnamable God, I feel you With me at every moment. You are my food, my drink, My sunlight, and the air I breathe You are the ground I have built on And the beauty that rejoices my heart. –Stephen Mitchell, excerpt from “Psalm 16”, A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew, pg. […]
Love in My Bones – Nov. 25, 2019
Quoted from A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew, by Stephen Mitchell. The Book of Praises, the ancient rabbis called it. Light up my eyes with your presence; Let me feel your love in my bones. Keep me from losing myself in ignorance and despair. Teach me to be endlessly patient. Let […]
Making Demands of God
For Sunday, August 18, 2013 – Psalm 82 The psalmist has experienced God as a God of justice and mercy, but when he looks at the vast needs of so many, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, the nations failing to serve, he has to wonder. He interrogates the Holy One, demanding response. “What’s going […]
To you, O Lord, we lift up our soul
For Sunday, July 14, 2013 – Psalm 25:1-10 The little church that is my home within The Church of the Saviour has come through some difficult passages recently. We found we could no longer sustain our central mission, The Potter’s House, a place of hospitality and encounter, and yet we struggled to open our hearts to […]
