2/5/17 Through 2/11/17

2/5/17 Through 2/11/17

Sunday

If you shelter one in need 

And if the hungry one you feed

Your light will break forth like the dawn

And God will heed when called upon

Not wisdom or sublimity

Persuasive words or clarity

Will bring the soul to know the One

Messiah and God's only Son

But lighted lamp and salty lives

Illuminate what earth deprives

Don't hide the light another time

But raise it high and let it shine

Monday

They that merely touch His cloak

Are healed and break that sinful yoke

That keeps us tied to earthly things

And have a glimpse, what love now brings

For Christ the same as yesterday

Creates anew for us each day

And though it seems as all is lost

His favor we cannot exhaust.

Tuesday

In the beginning it was not this way

For man saw his wife in the purest of ways

Both naked they looked with a heavenly gaze

And walked with the Lord in the cool of the day

Wednesday

Defiled by that from deep within

The source of all my greed and sin

Repentance now the only way

To cleanse this heart of living clay

How great the gift to cleanse the soul

Forgiving sins and making whole

When priests with absolution give

Repentant souls a chance to live.

Thursday

Naked yet and without shame

The man and wife, so pure became

Reflective of the Trinity

When they were joined in unity

But that great beauty flew away

When sin became their chosen way

No more he looked upon his bride

Except with greed and lust inside

But Christ has come as living bread

And on the cross, crushed Evil's head

That we could see again the sign

Of spousal love, and love divine

Friday

May my ears be opened Lord

To clearly hear Your daily word

And may I speak with clarity

Each day the Word You speak to me

Saturday

Cast out, the Tree of Life denied

The pangs of birth intensified

In toil now the earth will yield

For you must cultivate your field

But now upon the Tree of Life

The Son of God and Sacrifice

Upon the tree our Living Bread

The Bread of Life we now are fed