“Thus says the Lord GOD: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; And suddenly there will come to the temple the LORD whom you seek, And the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Yes, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.…
TURN YOUR RADIO ON
The great German theologian and philosopher of the late 13th / early 14th century, Meister Eckhart, once said “God is at home. It’s we who have gone out for a walk.” This seems to be saying something about the awareness, or lack of it, that God is here all the time, surrounding us, in us, at every moment of our daily lives. …
Chesed Christ
What title shall you give me?
What echo shall I reply?
“Justice,” you say…
While indifference warms the masses,
And “just ones” shiver in the cold!
Poverty walks and lies
By the side of the world
With eyes that cannot see
The Face reflected
In the stars above.…
STONE’S THROW AWAY
It is generally accepted that one of the great art jewels of the city of Florence is Michelangelo’s majestic sculpture of David. I’m glad that we actually took a guided tour in Florence that included a trip to the Accademia to see this great sculpture and to hear the guide provide such a multi-layered historical and aesthetic description of how the art came to be. …
Sentinel Stone
A fortress of matter seals unborn destiny
A guard stands blindly watching and waiting…
Dark light pregnant with time and space
Dreams in death so deep and daring…
Echoes of a past not yet conceived
Both fallow and fertilized, humming in silence…
Like a borrowed grave in a nameless new garden
Death tosses and turns in restless slumber…
What force could awaken such an impersonal landscape
With depth of complexity buried within?…