Washed in the word

Beside a lake melted into being by glaciers
I bathe my feet in your word made water –
the fluidity of creation –
dry them in the sand, scourings of the land
eroded, as all flesh, remade as
a million grains of grit that cling
like memories to
the story of my prayer

About Rosalind C Hughes

Rosalind C Hughes is an Episcopal priest, poet, and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.

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