Revelation 12:7-12 Who is like God? The nine choirs of angels shouted,and Michael, leading the heavenly host,ground the bat-winged dragon beneath his heel, he who once bore light, Lucifer,rocketing to earth on a lightning bolt. …
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you made summer and winter.— Psalm 74:16-17 It is time to gatherthe green tomatoes,even as the day and night are at equinox.Gourds lie drunkenly in the fields.The crows exult in thuggeryas they …
Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much…- Luke 16:10 Some pray for faith to move mountains;but overlook the gnarled and knotty pinethat grasps the cliff facewith roots as strong as talonsthat persistently turn that mountain into soil,daredevil defying gravity and windits needles whistling a laughing alleluia. Some pray for the faith …
by Leslie Scoopmire The way the air holds warmth like a brimming teacup, tenderlylifting the turkey vultures so hightheir grace is all you see, as they tracelazy lemniscates forever, forever, …
Loving Creator,we rise from our rest to sing your praise, joining the world You have made holy through your hands, O God. The coyotes are back in their dens, after antagonizing the farm dogs all night; the barred owls have paused their conversation under the lacy veil of heaven at sun rise; katydid, tree frog, and cricket have raised their song and …
Luke 14:1,7-14 In the beginning, our very first story about ourselves ends with the reminder we were born hungry,body and soul: On the day before God rested, at the dawn of time, God granted the newborn humanityevery herb and fruit tree for our food,sprung from the same soilas we were. God invites us allto a …
“Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel Knee-deep in a prie-dieu of compost, I asked for wonder,and pledged my attention,hoping to losethought of myselfin the prayer of planting (forboth are acts …
(For a friend in grief, for the assurance of resurrection ) Now, no matter, child, the name:Sorrow’s springs are the same.No mouth had, no nor mind, expressedWhat heart heard of, ghost guessed:It is the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for.” –from “Spring and Fall,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins Here Sorrow springs …
Luke 10:25-37 On the Jericho road his luck ran out.The air above the beaten track shimmeredand hissed like a snake. One sandallay in the center of the road, vanquished—the thieveshad left that, but all else was gone. Its forsaken foot curled up into the lip of the ditch,disembodied. The man laid there,arms flung wide, like …
Joshua said to all the people, “See, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us…” – Joshua 24:27a This pale stone from St. Columba’s Bayhad lain beneath pilgrim feet for a thousand years beforesinging its way to my notice; its delicate web …
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