Category Archives: prayer

Louisville Seminary

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

sun striking chapel bells call to morning prayer unanswerable

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Mind the gap

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Holy One, your creativity is infinite; our ability to respond to your expansive imagination is not. I do not think that you forget our frailty. Perhaps we forget that you have made us a little lower than the angels; another … Continue reading →

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Better

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

It started out easily enough: I shaved off my hair, my pride and my vanity, and cast it in the fire. Trouble was, I just looked too damned good that way; so I broke the mirror and used the shards … Continue reading →

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Evensong

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

evening, midweek, overwhelmed and underprayed, counting blessed sheep.

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Out of control

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

The calendar says that there are three weeks left of summer, up here in the northern hemisphere; but today was full of autumn leaves, red and gold and fallen. Clearly, my calendar is not fully in control of the seasons. Continue reading →

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Fragility

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

part of the beauty with which we were crafted, the genius; fragility invites gentleness. our hairline fractures allow luminescence to dance with infinite grace against  the canvas of creation. betrayed, it is our curse. a blessing, it reveals the resilience … Continue reading →

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A vain and foolish thing

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Vain and foolish, one would not think that with no animal spirit, nor soul, no mind of its own, but an idle thing could inspire such passion, such pain, such tearing, such rending of hearts, of lives apart; only with … Continue reading →

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Solid ground

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Constant God, You are the one fixed point in a universe that never stops moving; expanding, exploding, orbiting, spinning on its axis; the very earth beneath our feet shifts and shrugs, magma boils beneath the surface, fluid. No wonder we … Continue reading →

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more than watchmen for the morning

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

In the silence before the dawn,
in the fearful shadows that embalm
the edges of sleep, each sound
is amplified: Continue reading →

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Unmiracle

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

A miracle is, by definition, unlikely to happen. When our daughter was ten, I lost her in the woods. She was ten, and actively honing her skills in defiance, contrariness, and flouncing. It was our first visit after moving away, … Continue reading →

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