Worker of Wonders and Wonder, who moves as wind through Chaos and who fills the skies with cloud-shapes, we lie awake in torment guessing with thought, Will the coming day be a day for sowing or a day for reaping? Make whatever work we choose be fruitful and may we have fruit as the wind whispers and the clouds roll. Amen.
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“Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” – Ecclesiastes 9:18
Word of Wisdom, inspire insight ignite intelligence in the war of wise words for Folly stands at the podium again with the sweat of black death rolling down his cheek. Amen.
“God made us. We belong to God.” – Psalm 100:3
God of the Infinite, "Variety is the spice of life" yet how often do we replace "we" with "me"? Make us anew so that I once more belong with others and, with others, belong to You. Amen.
Moses would put the veil on his face again – Exodus 34:35
Countless-Faced One, who speaks to us through Moses, whose face shining bright with holy knowledge makes the people afraid, remove the masks that enshroud our hearts from love; place them as veils, as masks, over our lips to protect all others from our cruel words and thoughtless deeds. Amen.
“Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do.” – Ecclesiastes 9:7
God, who sets the table before us, move the heavy-laden from our minds move the care-laden from our hearts, create a feast of bread and wine to share with those we cannot touch. Amen.
“God will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents.” Malachi 4:5
Heart-Turner, we could throw ashes upon ourselves wailing, for the hearts of our children turn away, go onward and ahead; yet a child's heart desires to join with Spring's unfolding flowers. Make the blooms jewels; Gifts of the parents. Amen.
“…more than enough shame from the proud.” – Psalm 123:4
Bull-ier of bullies, the proud, the haughty, the puffed-up, contemptuous ones, still get all the attention at the playground monkey bars. Tomorrow, on the way out to recess, trip them up and bloody their noses so they must go instead to the nurse's office. Amen.
Some wandered in desert wastes… – Psalm 107:4
Desert Waterer, I fish at the side of your river while ash falls from the sky. Is this that moment between pools of water and parched land where your hand moves forced by a decision woven time long ago when you declared, "It is good!"? Tears move down dry skin on so many faces weathered, beaten, gathered waiting for good things. Deliver us from distress. Amen.
Morning After 2020 Election
This morning... I turn to art. Writing a poem or two. Certainly reading the poets who wrote about hope from the middle of hopelessness. And collage-ing... Putting pieces from crazily disparate scraps some torn some cut some overlooked until now into a new whole with fingers crossed. And video gaming in a world not my own fishing for the elusive blue fish picking flowers taking in the scenery and killing bosses.
I will utter dark sayings from of old… Psalm 78:2
Hearer, O Hearer, It's the dark sayings from of old, that frighten us. Children hide for fear of what the next adult parable havocs in their tiny lives; though curiosity draws them out of hiding places to see what the crazy ancestors always do next. Decrees. Laws. Commandments. A messy mix more fit for eating than to place into ears that hear. Continue to work your works, God, so we will not forget. Sometimes forgetfulness saves. Amen.
A Thread You Follow 