This steadfast love

After Psalm 107 

What is this steadfast

love, for which we are

to give thanks? It is

a love of redemption,

redemption from trouble.

 

What is this redemption,

for which we are to give

thanks? It is a redemption

from trouble, from sin,

the sin we bring upon

ourselves and others.

 

Who are the redeemed?

They are the ones gathered

together from the lands,

gathered from the east

and the west, gathered

from the north and south.

 

They come from desert wastes.

They come from darkness

and from death. They come

from foolishness and sinful

ways.

 

Some went down to the sea

in ships, rescued from storm.

Some were oppressed.

Some were afflicted.

All were hungry.

All were thirsty.

 

Give thanks to the Lord.

 

Photograph by Josh Eckstein via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

The Mystical Prayer of the Early Christians – David Torkington at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

The Woman Who Saved Capitol Hill Baptist Church – Caleb Morrell at Crossway.

 

Mary and Eve – poem by Michael Stalcup at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

Finding Christ in Isolation: A Sonnet for St. Julian of Norwich – Malcolm Guite.

 

How faith built the best of our nation (Britain) – book review by Esme Partridge at The Critic Magazine.