Poets & Saints

ScriptureRevelation 3:20 (NIV) "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me."RefrainGod waits for my yes.QuoteDenise Levertov, from Annunciation"The engendering Spirit did not enter her without consent. God waited.She was free to accept or to refuse, choice is integral to humanness.She did not cry, 'I cannot. I am not worthy,' Nor, 'I have not the strength.' She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging, coerced. Bravest of all humans, consent illuminated her. The room filled with its light, the lily glowed in it, and the iridescent wings. Consent, courage unparalleled, opened her utterly." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureJohn 19:25 (NIV)Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.RefrainI find power in presence and in stillness.QuoteEdwina Gateley, from Soul Sisters"Be silent. Be still. Alone. Empty before your God. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Be silent. Be still. Let your God look upon you. That is all. God knows. God understands. God loves you with an enormous love, and only wants to look upon you with that love. Quiet. Be still. Be silent. Let your God love you." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 1:38 (NRSVUE)Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.RefrainI open myself to what God wants to bring to birth in me.QuoteMeister Eckhart"We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRomans 1:20 (NIV)For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.RefrainGod is more than any image I have been given.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"Although Jesus was clearly of the masculine gender, the Christ is beyond gender, and so it should be expected that the Big Tradition would have found feminine ways, consciously or unconsciously, to symbolize the full Divine Incarnation and to give God a more feminine character — as the Bible itself often does." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureIsaiah 45:15 (NIV)Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel.RefrainGod is at the depth of all things, including me.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"I doubt if you can see the image of God in your fellow humans if you cannot first see it in rudimentary forms in stones, in plants and flowers, in strange little animals, in bread and wine, and most especially cannot honor this objective divine image in yourself. It is a full-body tune-up, this spiritual journey. It really ends up being all or nothing, here and then everywhere." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureEphesians 2:4–6 (NIV)But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.RefrainThe image of God cannot be extinguished.QuoteWalter Wink, from Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way"There is no one, and surely no entire people, in whom the image of God has been utterly extinguished. Faith in God means believing that anyone can be transformed, regardless of the past. To write off whole groups of people as intrinsically racist and violent is to accept the very same premise that upholds racist and oppressive regimes." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureHebrews 4:15 (NIV)For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.RefrainChrist is present in the depth of all things.QuoteSt. Bonaventure"As a human being Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stones he shares existence, with plants he shares life, with animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 2:7 (NIV)Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.RefrainChrist came for all of me.QuoteNikos Kazantzakis, from Report to Greco"One day the religion of Christ will take another step forward on earth. It will embrace the whole man, all of him, not just half as it does now in embracing only the soul." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureGenesis 2:15 (NIV)The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.RefrainThe gate of heaven is everywhere.QuoteThomas Merton"We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything — in people and in things and in nature and in events. The only thing is we don't see it. I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 12:49 (NIV)"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!"RefrainThe fire that refines me is taking me somewhere good.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"I am afraid many of us have failed to honor God's always unfolding future and the process of getting there, which usually includes some form of dying to the old. In practical effect, we end up resisting and opposing the very thing we want. The great irony is that we have often done this in the name of praying to God, as though God would protect us from the very process that refines us!" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRomans 8:28–30 (NIV)And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.RefrainI am being changed into something good.QuoteJohn Henry Newman, from An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureEphesians 2:7–10 (NIV)In order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.RefrainI was made for more than I can currently see.QuotePierre Teilhard de Chardin (attributed)"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureMatthew 5:8 (NIV)Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.RefrainEverything, rightly seen, is a miracle.QuoteAlbert Einstein"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureMark 1:15 (NIV)"The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!"RefrainThe kingdom is here. Love is already moving.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"Love is the energy that sustains the universe, moving us toward a future of resurrection. We do not even need to call it love or God or resurrection for its work to be done." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureMatthew 7:7–8 (NIV)Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.RefrainGod speaks. I am learning to listen.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"But think about it: If the incarnation is true, then of course God speaks to you through your own thoughts! As Joan of Arc brilliantly replied when the judge accused her of being the victim of her own imagination, 'How else would God speak to me?'" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scripture1 Kings 19:12 (NRSVUE)…and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.RefrainI climb down into who I truly am.QuoteCarl Jung, from Letters, vol. 1"My pilgrim's progress has been to climb down a thousand ladders until I could finally reach out a hand of friendship to the little clod of earth that I am." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 1:38 (NRSVUE)Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.RefrainThe eternal satisfies what nothing else can.QuoteAugustine, from On Christian Doctrine"A temporal thing is loved before we have it, and it grows worthless when we gain it, for it does not satisfy the soul. But the eternal is more ardently loved the more it is acquired. The soul will find the eternal even more valuable after once tasting it." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureJames 4:8 (NIV)Come near to God and he will come near to you.RefrainEven now, life is good.QuoteEtty Hillesum, from An Interrupted Life"In spite of everything you always end up with the same conviction: life is good after all, it's not God's fault that things go awry sometimes, the cause lies in ourselves. And that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland with my whole family." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureJohn 10:27 (NIV)My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.RefrainI hearken. God hearkens within me.QuoteEtty Hillesum, from An Interrupted Life"Truly, my life is one long hearkening unto myself and unto others, unto God. And if I say that I hearken, it is really God who hearkens inside me. The most essential and deepest in the other. God to God." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureGalatians 5:1 (NRSVUE)For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.RefrainLove flows unstoppably toward me.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"Love is constantly creating future possibilities for the good of all concerned — even, and especially, when things go wrong. Love allows and accommodates everything in human experience, both the good and the bad, and nothing else can really do this. Nothing. Love flows unstoppably downward, around every obstacle — like water. Love and water seek not the higher place but always the lower." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureMatthew 16:16–17 (NIV)Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven."RefrainGod is always more than I can hold.QuotePierre Teilhard de Chardin, from The Divine Milieu"God does not offer Himself to our finite beings as a thing all complete and ready to be embraced. For us, He is eternal discovery and eternal growth. The more we think we understand Him, the more he reveals himself as otherwise. The more we think we hold him, the further He withdraws, drawing us into the depths of himself." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureMark 5:34 (NIV)He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."RefrainI turn toward Love and find my peace.QuoteEloi Leclerc, from The Wisdom of the Poor One of Assisi"If we knew how to adore, then nothing could truly disturb our peace. We would travel through the world with the tranquility of the great rivers.But only if we know how to adore." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureMatthew 28:7 (NIV)Then go quickly and tell his disciples: "He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him."RefrainLove is always ahead, drawing me forward.QuotePierre Teilhard de Chardin"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRomans 8:28–29 (NLT)And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.RefrainLove is the meaning of everything.QuoteJulian of Norwich, from Showings"Know it well, love is its meaning. Who reveals this to you? Love. What does he reveal? Love. Why? For Love. Remain in this and you will know more of the same." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scripture1 John 4:20 (NIV)Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.RefrainI choose to see the good.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"We must — yes, must — make a daily and even hourly choice to focus on the good, the true, and the beautiful." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureActs 17:28 (NRSVUE)For "In him we live and move and have our being"; as even some of your own poets have said, "For we too are his offspring."RefrainI am made to participate in beauty.QuoteC.S. Lewis, from The Weight of Glory"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRomans 5:5 (NIV)And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.RefrainLove has been poured into me.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"I have never met a truly compassionate or loving human being who did not have a foundational and even deep trust in the inherent goodness of human nature." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 4:8–9 (NIV)Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.RefrainCreation mirrors the goodness of God.QuoteSt. Bonaventure, from The Soul's Journey into God"Let us place our first step in the ascent at the bottom, presenting to ourselves the whole material world as a mirror, through which we may pass over to God, who is the Supreme Craftsman. The Creator's supreme power, wisdom and benevolence shine forth through all created things." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRomans 8:14–17 (NIV)For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs — heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.RefrainGoodness was planted in me from the beginning.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"From the very beginning, faith, hope, and love are planted deep within our nature — indeed they are our very nature. The Christian life is simply a matter of becoming who we already are." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureColossians 3:11 (NLT)In this new life, it doesn't matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.RefrainIn every face I see, Christ is there.QuoteElizabeth Bowen, from The Heat of the Day"To turn from everything to one faceis to find oneself face to face with everything." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureGenesis 28:16-17 (The Message)Jacob woke up from his sleep. He said, “God is in this place—truly. And I didn’t even know it!” He was terrified. He whispered in awe, “Incredible. Wonderful. Holy. This is God’s House. This is the Gate of Heaven.”RefrainGod is here. I am waking up to it.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"In God you do not include less and less;you always see and love more and more.The more you transcend your small ego,the more you can include.When you look at any other person,a flower, a honeybee, a mountain — anything —you are seeing the incarnation of God's lovefor you and the universe you call home." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureEphesians 3:10–11 (NRSVUE)So that through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose that he has carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.RefrainI am part of something larger than myself.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"When you can honor and receive your own moment of sadness or fullnessas a gracious participation in the eternal sadness or fullness of God,you are beginning to recognize yourselfas a participating member of this one universal Body.You are moving from I to We." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureEphesians 1:9 (NLT)God has now revealed to us his mysterious will regarding Christ — which is to fulfill his own good plan. And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ — everything in heaven and on earth.RefrainGod's yes to me is older than time.QuoteAugustine, from Retractions"For what is now called the Christian religion existed even among the ancients and was not lacking from the beginning of the human race." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureColossians 1:19–20 (NIV)For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.RefrainIn God I live and move and have my being.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 20:38 (NIV)He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.RefrainI have nothing left to prove.QuoteBrennan Manning, from The Ragamuffin Gospel"God loves you as you are and not as you should be, because none of us are as we should be." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRevelation 21:5–6 (NRSVUE)And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life."RefrainGod is making all things new — including me.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"Faith at its essential core is accepting that you are accepted. We cannot deeply know ourselves without also knowing the One who made us, and we cann Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scripture2 Peter 1:4 (NRSVUE)Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature.RefrainI am a participant in the divine nature.QuoteAthanasius"God was consistent in working through one man to reveal himself everywhere, as well as through the other parts of His creation, so that nothing was left devoid of his Divinity and his self-knowledge... so that the whole universe was filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters fill the sea." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureJohn 8:58 (NRSVUE)Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am."RefrainBefore I knew God, God knew me.QuoteRichard Rohr, from The Universal Christ"Christ is the light that allows people to see things in their fullness. The precise and intended effect of such a light is to see Christ everywhere else. In fact, that is my only definition of a true Christian. A mature Christian sees Christ in everything and everyone else." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureHebrews 12:2 (NRSVUE)Looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.RefrainI am accepted, just as I am.QuotePaul Tillich, from The Shaking of the Foundations"Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted. If that happens to us, we experience grace. After such an experience we may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureRomans 6:4 (NRSVUE)Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.RefrainI carry resurrection into this day.QuoteWendell Berry, from Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. Practice resurrection." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureJohn 20:19–21 (NRSVUE)When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."RefrainPeace be with me, even here.QuoteSt. Seraphim of Sarov"Acquire inner peace and thousands around you will find their salvation." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 24:30–31 (NRSVUE)When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.RefrainOpen my eyes to what is already here.QuoteElizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit round and pluck blackberries." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 24:13–16 (NRSVUE)Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.RefrainEven in disappointment, You are near.QuoteFrederick Buechner"Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScriptureLuke 24:1–6 (NRSVUE)But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen."RefrainThe tomb is empty. Everything is different.QuoteN.T. Wright, from Surprised by Hope"Resurrection is not the reversal of death. It is the defeat of death. Not undoing what happened, but transforming it into something that opens onto a new world." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 3:13–14 (NRSVUE)Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.RefrainI press on toward what is ahead.QuoteFrederick Buechner, from Wishful Thinking"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 3:10–11 (NRSVUE)I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.RefrainIn my suffering, Christ is with me.QuoteNicholas Wolterstorff, from Lament for a Son"God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. The one who suffers beside us." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 3:10 (NRSVUE)I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.RefrainI surrender in order to know You.QuoteBrennan Manning, from Abba's Child"Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 3:8–9 (NRSVUE)I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ.RefrainIn losing, I find what truly lasts.QuoteRichard Rohr, from Falling Upward"The supposed achievements of the first half of life have to fall apart and show themselves to be wanting in some way, or we will not move further. Why would we?" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePhilippians 3:7–8 (NRSVUE)Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.RefrainI release what I once held as gain.QuoteThomas Merton, from New Seeds of Contemplation"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ScripturePsalm 84:11–12 (NRSVUE)For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you.RefrainGod withholds no good thing from me.QuoteGeorge Herbert, from The Pulley"When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by,let us, said he, pour on him all we can." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.