Week 3: Dec 13 – Dec 19
Does it go into my file? The one marked:
“Unanswered?”
like
so many others, on yellowing slips
scarred by messy penmanship,
faded by tears,
crumpling, the edges worn thin by overhandling.
These archives,
useless for research,
repositories for hopes and dreams,
once rocket launched in anger
now cocooned in heavenly
lockboxes.
Break the seals and read
let your whispering voice breathe,
sigh,
set them alight…
Butterflies
rising out of the ashes
of a million Amens.
Jenna Pashley, “Prayer No. 2936”
”Yes, indeed—God is my salvation.
I trust, I won’t be afraid.
God—yes God!—is my strength and song,
best of all, my salvation!”
Joyfully you’ll pull up buckets of water
from the wells of salvation.
And as you do it, you’ll say,
“Give thanks to God.
Call out his name.
Ask him anything!
Shout to the nations, tell them what he’s done,
spread the news of his great reputation!
Isaiah 12:2 – 4