Show me the suffering of the most miserable; so I will know my people’s plight. Free me to pray for others; for you are present in every person. Help me to take responsibility for my own life; so that I can be free at last. Give me honesty and patience; so that I can work…

Awe-full Frederick Ohler Great and holy God awe and reverence fear and trembling do not come easily to us for we are not Old Testament Jews or Moses or mystics or sensitive enough. Forgive us for slouching into your presence with little expectation and less awe than we would eagerly give a visiting dignitary. We…

Let us be wary that we do not relight the fires of old obsessions which would wreck us on our new voyage [of faith]. Whatever sort of flaming sword it is that guards the doorway of paradise has been already effectively extinguished for each of the faithful in the font of baptism. For the unfaithful,…

Desert Ruth Burgess The desert waits, ready for those who come, who come obedient to the Spirit’s leading; or who are driven, because they will not come any other way. The desert always waits, ready to let us know who we are– the place of self-discovery. And whilst we fear, and rightly, the loneliness and…