Why does he ask?

After Psalm 51 

Why dies he ask

for a clean heart

to be created within?

Because the friend,

the prophet, had

confronted the sin.

He was a man known

for being after God’s

own heart, and here

he is, asking for

a clean heart. He lays

out the process: 

a request for mercy,

a blotting out of sins,

a cleansing, knowledge

of what he’d done,

purging with hyssop,

washing to cleanness.

 

Photograph by Fabrizio Conti via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

“The Hymn of Ceylon,” poem by W.S. Senior – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

Reject the Religion of Efficiency – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.