Continuing My Lenten Discipline
I an writing my own acrostic psalm this year during Lent. I’ve missed a couple of weeks, but during a recent retreat worked my way to “E”. This post reads down from “e” to “a”.
Exchange guilt for righteousness
endlessly forgiving as you have been forgiven;
establish justice throughout the land.
Eclipsed by the Imago Dei that
enters every relationship.
Emerge from shadow into light proclaiming
experienced truth
eternal connection.
Do not conform out of fear,
desire the da of the Lord;
do good and be just.
Deliriously show compassion as
doers of the Way;
differentiate yourself from the world.
Delight in the teaching of the Lord,
dominate the world through compassion, justice, and love.
Contagious Grace, consume the world
cast doubt and fear away.
Comfort the afflicted;
challenge the comfortable.
Constant gardener of my being,
contain the “my” of selfish want.
Call out the compassion of Your image in me;
create, compound, do not conceal.
Breathe wisdom into chaos,
before fear and anger take hold;
blinding relationships and connections from past to tomorrow.
Balance the questions, feelings, and misguidedness,
bare the belief that kills in Your name or looks away for cheaper things;
break the cup of apathy, numbness to suffering, and the heart’s greed.
Blessed assurance of free will and divine Image,
bequeath justice, peace, kin-dom instead of kingdom living.
Astronomy Domine(1), the world is a stage for Your creative power,
answering to timeless voice that speaks into existence;
all colors, shapes, spirits, and religions.
Almighty is one given name,
awe and wonder
afterbirth of moments in Your presence.
Alluring grace that shows the path to Truth,
attend the petitions of this earth bound misfit, I.(2)