The tribes go up

A song after Psalm 122 

The tribes go up

to Jerusalem’s gates,

the tribes go up

to stand within.

The tribes go up

to Jerusalem’s gates,

to give thanks 

to the name

of the Lord.

 

And as we sing,

we offer our thanks,

we pray for peace,

we pray to be safe,

safe within the gates

of Jerusalem.

 

Pray for the peace

of Jerusalem;

pray for the peace

within our hearts.

Pray for the peace

of Jerusalem,

we pray for the house

of the Lord.

 

Photograph by Robert Bye via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

An Unexpected Specter – poem by Josh Bishop at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern. 

 

‘Sunshine’ and ‘A Kiss Across Time’ – poems by Martin Rizley at Society of Classical Poets.

 

A Bird in the Hand: Fifty Holy Wells, #18 – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.

 

Things Worth Remembering: Breaking Bread with the Dead – Douglas Murray on Seamus Heaney.