Prayers in Winter

O Lover,  Alas, from time to time I experience my life as if You were absent, as if You simply were not. While I often am aware of Your Presence, when I might edit...

[“But Moses said to (Joshua), ‘Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put (the LORD’s) Spirit on all of them!’” (Num 11:29)] [“John...

O Lover,   You, O Lover, are no more delimited or measured by space than You are by time.  Neither, nor any other finite category, circumscribes You. I have been pondering the category of...

[“. . . (M)any prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them” (Lk...

[“(Y)ou meant evil against me, but God meant it for good to bring about the present result, to preserve many people’s lives” (Gen 50:20).] [“(B)ehold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah,...

[“ . . . and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, (Jesus) said to (a deaf man hardly able to speak), Ephphatha! that is, ‘Be opened!’” (Mark 7:34).] O Lover, I frequently...

[“How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! My soul yearns and longs for the courts of the Lord; my body and soul sing for joy to the living God. . ....

O Lover, Only in my most recent re-reading of the unabridged diary of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) have I been seized by her use of the term “undercurrent.” I first noted the image in her...

[“Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. . . .And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake...

[“God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction. . . .The highest and most perfect thing that a person can let go is that he lets...