My church friend Rachel shares John 10:10,
Her favorite Bible verse on how faith brings joy into her creative life. She has critiqued my poems and essays selflessly again, And she inspires me to be a better mom and a kinder wife. People may look at church folks as if we were silly simple-minded prudes, Too scared to drink wine or wander into the darkness of the Internet. Rachel tells me that her visual art, like her life, Deals with sorrow, social justice, the now and the not-yet. To understand art, poems, the Bible, or even our changing kids, A second or even a 10th close look is what it often takes. Rachel and I sharpen each other's artistic eyes, While our kids pretend to be adventurers during our playdates. https://www.foreshadowmagazine.com/magazine/a-closer-look
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I'm going through a very challenging time this Lent. I found an excerpt of this prayer on a personal blog of a friend. Then a day later, more bad things were happening, so I found the complete prayer. Dear stranger, if you are in a difficult time, here is a prayer for you!
Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. “The Merton Prayer” from Thoughts in Solitude Copyright © 1956, 1958 by The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. Used by permission of Farrar Straus Giroux. Stealing this text from The Merton Prayer | Reflections (yale.edu) God bless them God bless you |