Bottling my anxiety
I spent a recent Saturday morning foraging for fruit, and bottling my anxiety against the coming winter: raiding lonely but laden apple trees on roadside reserves; carefully collecting windfalls from our ancient pear tree before greedy grubs burrow in, to spoil and...
5 April Isaiah 50: 4 – 9, Psalm 31, Philippians 2:1-13, Matthew 26:14 – 27:66 or Matthew 27:11-54
Isaiah 50:4-9 Give me the tongue of a teacher That I may know how To sustain the weary with a word Open my ear That I may listen As those who are taught Psalm 31 Be my rock of refuge Solid Dependable Not hard Not unfeeling Be my strong fortress Secure Raised up Not...
29 March Ezekiel 37: 1 – 14, Psalm 130, Romans 8: 1 – 11, John 11: 1 – 45
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Our bones are dried up Our hope is lost We are cut off completely Come from the winds O breath And breathe upon us That we may live Psalm 130 In the darkness We wait for the morning We wait for the Lord It is the Lord who hears our voice It is the Lord...
22 March 1 Samuel 16: 1 – 13, Psalm 23, Ephesians 5: 8 – 14, John 9 1 – 41
1 Samuel 16: 1 – 13 Have I been rejected Lord? Sanctified? Invited to the sacrifice? Asked to wait, to watch? …until the time is right. Have I been chosen Lord? Annointed? Been taken mightily by the spirit of the Lord? Asked to wait, to watch? …until...