He takes my hand so lovingly, curling his fingers around mine, as if t’were a treasure of great price, and I hold his in mine while memories of that first fragile touch of nervousness. ==== Love can be worn thin like ice, a place that snaps easily and falling far through the fracture often floundering… Continue reading Love is:
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Fraught Fishing
Jesus is Resurrected and appears to the fishermen. ——– The net stretched deep into the lake, the stars glistened and somewhere an owl hooted, still they worked and searched, no fish came. —— The net still hung in the water, as it tinted pink with the waking world, a fire on the beach, nothing strange,… Continue reading Fraught Fishing
Public Humiliation of the Innocent.
Good Friday All through the night he was moved and tried, no one stood by him and not one dared stay, Peter denied knowing him and a cock crowed, people yelled, ‘Crucify!’ when Pilate was unsure. Washing his hands, wipes away innocent blood, scans the grown ugly mob and turns to Jesus, and hands the… Continue reading Public Humiliation of the Innocent.
The Kingdom in the Vineyard
Holy Tuesday The purple fruits hung in bulging clusters, their juice running down the sampler’s chin, Beautiful to see and wonderful to pick and mouthwatering, tartness and sweetness as the grapes burst, giving up their fruitfulness. — The vines, like people have roots deep down in the soil of their youth, but there are… Continue reading The Kingdom in the Vineyard
My Valentine
The snowdrops split the Earth and bravely shone against the wintry grey. Hiding below where the secret darkness of the soil gives life, two fruits gradually split and new birth begins. Separately they grew entwining the bare branches of the beleaguered hawthorn ruled by frost and snow, hail and gales. But still they grew on… Continue reading My Valentine
Love
Those eyes, I look and see myself as he does, He stares back with leisurely love, It never wavers, Each tiny cell speaking peace, Each lash and brow saying, “Hush.” Challenged I watch those eyes that watched the children play, and Blessed them, turned to the blind and dumb, and healed them, looked into the… Continue reading Love