6/18/23 Through 6/24/23

 6/18/23 Through 6/24/23

Sunday

The harvest is rich, but the laborers few.

The question is now, is He calling forth you,

To be a farm worker and gather the grain

Ignoring the trials and passion and pain?

The answer is, Sure!, for He speaks to us all 

And sheep are expected to answer His call.

We can't sit around in the comfort of home

While people are crying or dying alone.

Be friend and companion, be leader and guide

Walk with the poor and the sick at their side

For God of the harvest is calling you now

And giving the gifts to show you just how.

Monday

Mary, help of sinners

Turn to us today

Turn the weak to winners

Teach us how to pray

Mary, font of graces

Pour on us we pray

In our varied places

What we need this day

Mary, poor and humble

Graced with eagle's wings

Help us all who stumble

Heal the wound that stings

Mary, help the outcast

Miscreant, ill-famed

Raise the low and downcast

Those of sin ashamed

Hide within your bosom

Sinners that you see

Be a tender cushion,

Make a place for me.

Tuesday

The love of God extends to all

Both those who stand and those who fall

Our love is called to be like He

For friend or foe, or enemy

Wednesday

The comfort zone we know so well 

For here, we many stories tell

All so familiar, fits so good

Just like a well-made puzzle should.

Discomfort zone not quite the same

Exposing us to taunt and shame

Yet we must answer to this call

To meet at last, the Lord of all

The Oh-zone follows up from there

Where God provides the daily fare

So high above the other zones

For this the one our Savior owns

It's here we simply marvel when

We see our Lord at work again

How He can take our little seed

And then a group of thousands feed

The Ohs of wonder, fear, and awe

Explode at what the docile saw

That when the poor and humble pray

Great things will come if we obey.

Our comfort's not the thing we need

But willingness to not succeed

And know the world's is not the way

But simply, lovingly obey.

Then ohs of wonder joy and fame

Will follow on His Holy Name

For then we peek above the skies

And get a glimpse of Truly Wise.

Thursday

Quite enough to say "Our Father"

That alone will set the stage

Why should God attend or bother

But His children to engage?

That alone conveys the message

God is love and want for good

Prophets those who dimly presage

Christ, the Light, within them stood.

Friday

The treasure stored, a useless lot

But blessings used, not so.

For what have wealthy peasants got

For where they want to go?

Their wealth decayed and rotten in

A few short years below.

With nothing there to help them in

To where they want to go.

Saturday

A messenger to break the news

In varied small degrees

To show the way of life to choose

And how, our God, to please

Repent and turn away from sin

Behold the candle's flame

In doing so, new life begin

Accepting rightful blame.

Foundational to life with Him

Is turning from our sin

And raising up a joyful hymn

When all is clean within.