Vous etes mon coeur

When you first regarded me

Your eyes filled me with grace

Thereby again my eyes

Merited to adore you

Vous etes mon coeur, Gungor

(You are my heart)

When you regarded me

Your eyes imprinted in me Your grace

For this You loved me again,

And thereby my eyes merited

To adore what in You they saw

Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ stanza XXXII

St. John of the Cross. 

All the Psalms seem like dreary yet hopeful waiting

to deliver them
- the promise for which we wait
this "blessed" people.
Psalm 33

chosen for his own
the first non-narcissistic love
I have ever known.
1 Cor. 1:26-31

Our Darkness is Never Darkness in Your Sight

treasured troubled soul
sometimes a light surprises
night clear as day-light

Weary Warriers, Be Faithful in Love

Psalm 31
Though we are weary
our very lives testify
steadfast is his love

Psalm 35
a long weary war rages
injustice laughs, the weak wait
expectant with hope.

Haggai 1:1-15 
temple forgotten
Israel sought present pleasures
repent and rebuild


Revelations 2:18-29
be pure in your love
do not be beguiled by lies
faithful Bride of Christ

Matthew 23:27-39
like a hen with chicks
I long to gather you close
but you refuse this.

Phillip Under the Fig Tree

how do you know me?
Phillip hid not from Your sight
under the fig tree

what thoughts were had there
that made sense of this question?
sight that knows speaks deep.

Hypocrites and Sinners, Garmins and Faithfulness

Haiku of Today's Lectionary

Psalm 37

the Lord makes a way

and takes us there by the hand

God's my life Garmin.

Amos 9:1-10

we think we can hide

but His sight pierces our sin

bringing judgment love.

Matthew 23:13-26

woe to hypocrites!

your pride blinds your unclean hearts.

wait, this sounds like me!

Revelations 2:8-17

suffering will come.

hold fast, be faithful even then

he makes all things new.

Eucharist

who feeds the ravens
beneath the spreading heavens
doth himself feed us.