October 23, 2013

Today’s text

Psalm 90 (paraphrase)

You gather those who love You as friends returning from a long journey, giving rest to their souls. You anoint them with the balm of understanding, healing wounds of the past. … Increase the Light within us--O Beloved, hear our prayer.

Home once more

Long we wander, wondering,

doubting if ever we come

to the place Love filled

us, once more to know the

home we do not choose

but which chooses us.

Lost, our souls convinced

moments of heart-full

knowing forever gone

never to be known

once more in sweetness

of tears and faces

glowing, lit within by

Light uncreated

by human hands.

Sun rises, a new day

surprises birthing hope,

You the Lighthouse piercing

dark clouds once more

finding our lostness amid

waves that sicken

the soul, drawing us

home again to know

the Love thought lost amid

the living we must do.

Light finds and shines in

not only on souls once

lost amid the waves,

found and filled; prayer

answered once more, wounds

once bleeding find healing, no,

Healing Light, again finds

them, once more home in

the Love who is this

world’s Heart.

Pr. David L. Miller