Sit with Him; eat with Him; dip the bread, by His side – Surely Lord not I? Walk with Him through olive trees; fall asleep and fail to pray; watch as one of you betrays – Surely Lord not I? Warm yourself by cosy fires; answer truth with spitting lies; listen as theContinue reading “Lent 39: Saturday of Fifth Week”
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Lent 38: Friday of Fifth Week
Look: see the woman with her oil and hair; see His feet (they’re not yet scarred); see the gasp upon your face; see His searching eyes. Listen: He spoke to you of the Son of Man; He spoke of death and burial; He spoke of Passover, exodus; He spoke; you did not hear. Learn: HeContinue reading “Lent 38: Friday of Fifth Week”
A new project, and a request
One of the original purposes with which The Consolations of Writing was created was to celebrate the ways in which God can use our trials and struggles to grow good fruit in our lives. This purpose emerged out of my own struggles with mental illness – depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder – and the ways in which,Continue reading “A new project, and a request”
Lent 37: Thursday of Fifth Week
Look, the shepherd separates: sheep from goats He divides, bone and marrow He prises open, hearts’ deep secrets He dissects. Look, the true ones walk through streets and feed the poor. The children give their food to dogs, the princes clothe the naked… Look; deep inside, now look. Secret acts reveal ourContinue reading “Lent 37: Thursday of Fifth Week”
Go to Dark Gethsemane: Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day 2
First the garden. And this first betrayal: friends asleep when most needed; then – another in the wings, a kiss at the ready; a sword, the sternness of armies come to slay a spotless lamb. O Christ – I have not even a sword; only betrayers’ kisses heaped withContinue reading “Go to Dark Gethsemane: Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day 2″
Lent 36: Wednesday of Fifth Week
And it will reveal who has taken talents, hid them in the frugal field, who has sown what has been given and let small things grow. And it will reveal the hearts of those who plant and reap, the hearts of servants great and small, the motives of the heart’s dark countries. TheContinue reading “Lent 36: Wednesday of Fifth Week”
O Sacred Head: Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day 1
As Easter rapidly approaches, I find myself feeling less and less equipped for what is ahead: Jesus on the Cross, bearing my sins. Even less prepared am I for the reality of the Resurrection – new life for old, us the sinners sharing in His glory. But this is the truth, and it can be aContinue reading “O Sacred Head: Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day 1″
Lent 35: Tuesday of Fifth Week
Wait, and serve. The household needs food and the garden needs pruning; the vineyard needs tending, the truth must be stored. Serve, and trust. The master, though absent, both sees and will honour your everyday efforts in deed and in heart. Trust, and fear. He won’t be long coming though days seem to pass. TheContinue reading “Lent 35: Tuesday of Fifth Week”
Lent 34: Monday of Fifth Week
Until the day when all’s made new: desolation; Temples fall. Before the shining of the Son: run into the hills. Until the brightness of the dawn: darkness seems to rule the day. Before the great Light of the World: wait, in patient hope.
Catechism 14
Did God create us unable to keep his law? No, but because of the disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, all of creation is fallen; we are all born in sin and guilt, corrupt in our nature and unable to keep God’s law. (New City Catechism) The spirit is willing but theContinue reading “Catechism 14”
The Consolations of Writing 