Tag Archives: Psalm 69

Compassion and complicity

Pray for the people of Nepal and Tibet, the dead, the dying, the missing and the missed, the grieving, the helping, the despairing. Pray, too, that we might learn to promise never again to flood the whole earth, and, with our knowledge of good and evil, to find a way to keep it. Continue reading

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Mire

Save me, O God;I am sinking in deep mire,and there is no firm ground for my feet. I am not getting out the same wayas I landed in this predicament,ensnared by gravity and half-digested decay,trapped in the peat bog where … Continue reading

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