What God Requires
It is not great sacrifice that you require of us, God, filling your temple with slaughtered animals, or the overflowing rivers of our wealth; It is not laboured rituals [...]
We Underestimate Your Compassion, Jesus
How we underestimate your compassion, Jesus; we are too easily convinced that you frown more than you smile, that our weakness and ignorance, our mistakes and sins, guarantee nothing but [...]
True Whole-iness
I sometimes wonder how it makes you feel, God, when we speak of you in the hushed tones of fear, when we think of holiness as rigid rule-keeping, and harsh [...]
True Fasting
Keep us, O God, from dry, brittle religion, from rigid laws and cold judgements, from personal piety and aloof disinterest in the well-being of others. Teach us the way of [...]
Through Our Tears
It’s not wrong to ask where you are, God, when innocent children go hungry, or are abducted as sexual slaves or die of curable diseases, or are forced to fight [...]
The Sound Of Tears
There is a sound, God, when grief spills from the corner of an eye, and stains the earth with its wetness. It is not a quiet sound, although it may [...]
The Call Of Compassion
If we’re honest, compassion does not come easy to us, God; We see others who struggle; those without homes, or food; those dying from curable diseases, simply because they can’t [...]
Seeing
Keep us from our self-imposed blindness, Jesus; hold our heads firmly in your grasp so we cannot look away from those who are broken; pull us forward so that we [...]
Quietly Prophetic
In a cynical and despairing world, O God, give us a quietly prophetic voice to proclaim your hope. In a violent and angry world, O God, give us a [...]
Magnificat
We praise you, Lord, and our spirits rejoice in you – our Saviour; For you take notice of the unnoticeable, and transform them into the blessed; You are strong [...]