Poems for Sunday, July 27, 2025
Hosea 1:2-10, Genesis 18:20-32, Colossians 2:6-15, and Luke 11:1-13
Faithfulness Beyond Failure Inspired by Hosea 1:2-10 Abundant turns ruins to bliss faithful beyond all rebellion recklessly gorgeous God's faithfulness. -- Uncalculated Grace Inspired by Genesis 18 How much wickedness does righteousness outweigh? or vice versa Abraham anxiously tried to calculate this. Perhaps that saint says it best, "God understand all the sciences, but refuses to do math." Today, just like then, God offers a new start. Here, we still are in grace. -- Goodbye, death Inspired by Colossians 2:6-15 (16-19) The fullness— Almighty's deep whisper and thunder— dwells in Christ, the very frame of the invisible God. And we, like rivers finding their sea, are drawn into absolute union. A sad story, we moved like shadows, silent in our graves, near Oblivion. But in Christ— we rose and rise, hearts practically bursting, remembered anew, in the facts of the Risen One "Goodbye, death" said Love. -- Hesitant Prayer Inspired by Luke 11:1-13 I hesitate to pray— I know I shouldn’t. I love the quiet. The wilderness where true prayer might happen, rising like smoke from simple fires. But to ask— to really ask— is to stand exposed untethered from the do-it-yourself mantras. Prayer unmasks my minuscule power. I don’t like that. Yet still, nervous at best, I enter. And there— not ridicule or silence— but Presence, warm and strange, unlike any I have known. A God who listens. A God who delights to give. And so, I've started to pray more often.