Psalm 25:1-10
I offer my life to you, Lord.
My God, I trust you.
Please don't let me be put to shame!
Don't let my enemies rejoice
over me!
For that matter, don't let anyone who hopes in you
be put to shame;
instead, let those who are
treacherous without excuse be put to shame.
Make your ways known to me, Lord; teach me your
paths.
Lead me in your truth - teach it to me - because
you are the God who saves me.
I put my hope in you all day long.
Lord, remember your compassion and faithful love - they
are forever!
But don't remember the sins of my youth or my
wrongdoing.
Remember me only according to
your faithful love
for the
sake of your goodness, Lord.
The Lord is good and does the right thing; he
teaches sinners which way they should go.
God guides the weak to justice, teaching them his way.
All
the Lord's paths are loving and faithful for those who keep his covenant and
laws.
The Holy in the
Ordinary
Holy is the time and
holy is this place,
and there are holy
things that must be said.
Let us say to one
another what our souls whisper...
.
O Holy One, cast your
tent among us;
come into our ordinary lives and bless the living!
Forty days stretch before us,
forty days of hungering after faithfulness,
forty days of trying to understand the story,
and then, Holy Week...
O God, if every week were holy...
These forty days stretch before us,
and those of us who believe
yearn to feel Your presence,
yearn to be
Your people;
and yet, the days fill with ordinary things
with no time left
for seeking the holy.
Spiritual contemplation is all riight
for those who have the time,
but most of us have to make a living.
Most of us have to live in the real world
where profanity splashes and blots out
anything holy.
Where, O Holy One, can we find You in this unholy mess?
How, O God, can we find the holy in the ordinary?
(Ann Weems, Kneeling in Jerusalem)
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