Tag Archives: Psalm

A psalm of lament

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

We turn to you, Compassionate One,
with your endless forbearance and infinite mercy, and pray that your patience will one day break;

because it seems some days that ours, our capacity for carnage, is everlasting. Continue reading →

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Timely: a psalm

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Bend my time back to the moment
when You are ever present,
and let it be now. Continue reading →

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Psalm for the fourth funeral

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Good God, sometimes mortality becomes too heavy for us to bear under; it piles up like bones. We flood the valley floor with grief; our footsteps sink for want of solid ground. How long, O Lord, will you wait to … Continue reading →

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Music to weep by

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

A simple psalm, honest vibrato supplied by the singer’s fear of the Lord; a half-forgotten nursery rhyme from a half-forgotten time; a song whose intervals trip down memory lane; a show tune belted over the kitchen sink; notes rise on … Continue reading →

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Portents

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Rosalind C Hughes

This week has been a bit, well, portenty; omenfull, as it were. If I were of a nervous disposition, I might be getting a little bit jumpy. It started on Tuesday, with the purchase of not one but two temporary … Continue reading →

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