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What End?
Over the past several months I have been working through a collection of psalms in the Old Testament’s book of Psalms called the Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). This collection of songs is believed to have been sung by pilgrims as they traveled to Jerusalem for the great Jewish festivals.…
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Dear Heart
This sonnet is a second based upon Psalm 131 and is a word of comfort or a moment of self-talk over and against all the words, phrases, and speaking which often rolls through one’s thought-life. In the South, “dear heart” can be spoken in a condescending fashion much like it’s…
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What Rest?
The Songs of Ascent are a collection of pilgrim songs — songs sung by those on the road who are journeying to God. These psalms contain encouragement and counsel for the pilgrim, and like a geographer, these songs describe the lay of the land of a pilgrim’s world. The lesson…
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What Redemption?
This sonnet is based on Psalm 130 which is both a song of ascent and is one of what St. Augustine termed the penitential psalms — a collection of confessions of sin of which Psalm 51 is the more often well-known. In the pilgrim’s sojourn to his destination with God,…
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Good Grief
Here’s an example of how other’s words are like seeds which find their way into your imagination and grow and bear fruit — in this case a poem. Tish Harrison Warren, writes of her season of lament and grief HERE. In her post she says “grief is like sand”. That…
Backward Mutters 