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 [...]
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 [...]
We are the Church, Jesus, but sometimes we fail to believe it, and so we focus more on what divides us than on your call and the unconditional welcome that [...]
Your reign is always coming, Jesus, slipping into our lives quietly like a thief, and subverting our comfortable self-interest; and, even though we know we should be watching we miss [...]
You call me to wait on You, Lord, but I get tired of waiting. Your answers to my prayers, Your call for me to serve You, the promise of Your [...]
You have blessed us, O God, with your Word, Creative and life-giving, Spoken through the ages, In Christ, made flesh, In our hearts known as truth; We praise you, [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes, God, It seems that you don’t care much for your reputation. Your name always seems to crop up in connection With all the wrong sorts of people: questionable people, [...]
Here we are again, God With all that makes us who we are, all that fills our lives; Carrying into this place of joy and freedom the burdens we just [...]
It’s a familiar call, Jesus a whisper almost unheard but persistent and unfailing “Come,” it says. “Come to me, and I will give you rest.” We long for what [...]
Some say this is a faithless world; they grieve the loss of the sacred; they speak with longing of other times when the unseen held a place of significance; and [...]