Broken

Broken...I now talk with God.
O Lord Jesus my Saviour.
Today my heart is empty.
Pride is the thing I will miss least when time comes to an end.
I need a priest.
I need a preacher.
I need an exorcist to banish the snake I've been handling called...self.
Broken...I now talk to God.

-Ben Pearson

Instrument of Your Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith, where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I many not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- Saint Francis of Assissi

The Tax Collector

"God be merciful to me, a sinner."

Shalom for the Ragamuffins

May the "Shalom voice" of the true Lord Jesus live in my heart with its power to give itself away. For your child, Oh God, grant grace to receive it and give it to the people of your heart - the broken, fatherless, widow, voiceless, nameless, and anxious. Give me courage to feed the mouth that bites the hand that feeds it. Amen

Hosanna

Save now, O Lord, from the quagmire of litigous, partisan religion. Break the tethers that reduce us to a deductive knowledge of You. Save us from the futility of self-preserving thought and action. Have mercy and lift us from the soul-stripping centrifuge of egocentric and self-defining ideology. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth. Be the Scandal. I'll be here waiting for you to start with me. Amen.

You Surround Me

You surround me
You indwell me
You're beside me
Ever present, always near
You're the whisper
Calling my name gently
Love eternal
Reaching to me
Jealous for me
God I will stay with you forever
Arm in arm together
You will never let me go
My life is not worth it without You
You gave meaning and sense to my life

-song by Karen Padgett, translated from Gaelic