Seeing Glory
We seem to have lost the ability to see glory, God; We look at money, or medals, last-person-standing triumphs, and exclusive, only-for-the-privileged-few accolades, and we call these glorious, forgetting how [...]
We seem to have lost the ability to see glory, God; We look at money, or medals, last-person-standing triumphs, and exclusive, only-for-the-privileged-few accolades, and we call these glorious, forgetting how [...]
Though it may seem to us that evil spreads like a virus, though it may feel naïve to resist it, we choose to believe that your spirit’s fruit can satisfy [...]
What a mixed bunch we are, Jesus, and what a tortoise-shell world we live in; Light ands shadow, grace and judgement, goodness and sin side by side in each of [...]
Because of your grace and beauty, your compassion and truth, we offer you our tongues, O God, as instruments of praise. In joy and celebration, in grief and despair, [...]
When injustice looms large, remind us that small, daily Gospel obediences reveal the infinite wideness of God’s mercy, and strengthen all whose lives of daily justice bring grace into the [...]
Lord God, Sovereign of all, We need Your wisdom and compassion to flood the corridors of power in our world. May Your Kingdom come. We need creativity and courage [...]
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 [...]
The worst storms, Jesus, are the ones caused by our fear, when we grow afraid of losing our power, or we grow suspicious of the power of others, when we [...]
It’s a tough thing for us to learn, Jesus, how you hide in the most unlikely places; how you beckon us into life and compassion by disguising yourself in [...]
This following is hard, Jesus; I thought it would be easier somehow; I didn’t count on all the direction and obedience; I didn’t think that Your vineyard would be [...]