Tag Archives: psalm 139

To count them

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

A meditation on verses from Psalm 139

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Pride

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Rosalind C Hughes

I think that the message that Jesus is sending here is that we do not need to deny that we are hungry, aching, withered, beloved and loving, marvelously (fabulously) made; but to know that God feeds us, heals us, restores us, loves us; that this is what sabbath is about: resting in the love of God. Continue reading →

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I am from…

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

have you ever done one of these? I was introduced to the “I am from” form at a conference this week. Honestly, as an adoptee, an immigrant, an exile from my own history I don’t do well with the perennial … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 5: if I make my bed in the grave

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The fact that the stories we hear today, which echo one another so clearly that these two women might have been related, one the great-great grandmother of the other, a sister several times removed; the fact that these stories revolve … Continue reading →

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Serpent

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Fashion your fear in all its detail. Make your sin shiny, sleek and dangerous. Fill its fangs with all the venom you can muster. Gaze upon it, and know that you are greater than the thing which you create.   … Continue reading →

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