New Testament
perfect Community
winter roads
accepting hardships
protect your children, Lord
flight to Egypt
Flight to Egypt, Eugene-Alexis Girardet, photo by Waiting For The Word
wisdom and risk
Thanksgiving prayer
O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help;
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.
Amen.
groanings
Father!
Your Spirit told us
through the mouth of Paul
that the whole earth
and we too
as your children
groan
in the pangs of a birth!
It is easy, Lord,
to grasp and affirm this.
For there are passages
so difficult
and hours
so filled with anguish
that the image really applies:
they are labour pains!
Something is being born.
Who knows?
A world in which men and women can breathe,
a more just, a more human world!
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