All rights reserved
© Rosalind C Hughes and over the water, 2011-2026. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Rosalind C Hughes and over the water, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing
https://bookstore.upperroom.org/Products/1921/a-family-like-mine.aspxWhom Shall I Fear: Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence
https://www.amazon.com/Whom-Shall-Fear-Questions-Christians/dp/0835819671-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
RevGalBlogPals
Meta
Category Archives: prayer
A Song of Anna
What would it sound like, what would it feel like, if we had Anna’s song, too, to sing as our prayers rise like incense at the end of the day? Continue reading
Posted in holy days, poetry, prayer
Tagged Anna, Canticles, Presentation of Christ in the Temple, Song of Simeon
Leave a comment
Decade
Ten years a priest.
I should have something to say,
but I have let words trickle away,
at funerals or weddings,
during mundane Monday
phone calls, meetings … Continue reading
A prayer on the threshold of the year
Dear God, are we ready for a new year? Already it is at hand, already it has arrived on distant shores and makes its way towards us like a steam ship, like a migration. Time, your creature, our sibling and companion, orbits us.
How will we greet it: as a child of your mercy or an angel of your justice or an incarnation of your endurance? Continue reading
Posted in current events, poetry, prayer
Tagged Matthew 24:37-39, Matthew 6:34, new year resolutions, New Year's Eve, psalm 118:24
Leave a comment
Holy Innocents: transferred
There must have been others who retracedtheir ancestors’ footprints over Sinai,although no Moses basket launched upon the Nile;instead, the Innocents wakened from a nightmareby the whisper of a blade, the fadingmemory of mothers’ final, ululating lullaby… Innocence today plays with … Continue reading
Emmanuel
Emmanuel Away from the crush of the crowd and the hubbub of the inn, aside in the stableChrist is born;in the silence that prepares for his first breath,God speaks: “I am with you.”
The longest night
Morning after the longest night,like the first day of creationwhen evening fell before the dawn;as the dream goes before awakening,the linened tomb before resurrection,the twilight womb before the birthof the Christ, all partand particular to his Incarnation,this nurturing dark that … Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, poetry, prayer
Tagged Incarnation, longest night, solstice
Leave a comment
Because love is the miracle
Love is what it takes
to make the other
miracles true… Continue reading
Posted in blessings, homily, poetry, prayer
Tagged love, marriage, miracle, wedding of Cana
Leave a comment
Advent (the second coming)
There is no cloud of glory can define, no gates of heaven can confine; there is no dogma, doggerel, or doctrine can describe, no earnest imitation reinscribe him. Christ’s coming cannot be constrained or restrained by our rituals of mortality.Our candles are dimmed, our illuminated manuscripts … Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, holy days, poetry, prayer
Tagged Advent, Christ, nativity, second coming
Leave a comment
Armistice
It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, but one hundred and three years past the eleventh hour, we are still more accomplished at starting wars than finishing, and as the day digs its way toward noon, … Continue reading
Repentance
To repent is
in some small, frayed
way to unknit
the fabric … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, prayer
Leave a comment
over the water 