Photo Meditations

Open wide the doors of grace Let every saint and sinner in. Welcome every tribe and race To help each person seek the face Of God who ever dwells therein. Open wide the doors of faith To all who wander in the dark Where guided by a heavenly spark They may find courage...

On a city street of asphalt and concrete where last winter’s ice cracks a stubborn sidewalk, a defiant dandelion takes root and proudly Puts forth its floral sunburst. A young couple prays test results will confirm If this time the Lord will at last bless them with...

Far, far worse than wandering alone abroad A stranger in an alien nation Is returning to a place you once called home Recognizing words but no longer their meaning Seeing unfamiliar faces on friends and family Then realizing, to your shock, it was not they But you who...

You, who delivered us when we were still enslaved By sin and selfishness, do not abandon us Now in our time of despair nor turn your face From our pitiful plight when all else fails And faithless friends flee, But come to us again in our hour of need. Not from among...

Let all that was and is and will ever be Praise God from whom all creation erupts Like a million billion galaxies and hummingbirds Like swans, planets, centipedes and stars Things visible and invisible like Jellyfish, quasars, magnetic fields and gravity Microbes,...

On the darkest hour of the darkest day When lust for power corrupted the best And people willingly traded their souls For the right to rule and ride roughshod Over the foreigner, the poor, the Other, It is then, always then, that holy Wisdom Explodes silently upon an...

Lord, make me a witness to your truth. Turn my eyes from evil. Close my ears to falsehood. Shield my mind from the temptation To judge others who sin differently than I. Seal my lips from adding to the noise Of a world that worships power, Rewards greed and sacrifices...

With broken hearts, dashed hopes and bowed heads Defeated and deflated we make our mournful way Far from the pain of shattered dreams that is Jerusalem Toward some supposed safety known as Emmaus. Ever lengthening shadows and fast descending darkness Magnify the...

Consider Isaiah’s vision of virgin birth And God’s suffering servant singing centuries Before the cross ever took shape. Thus he revealed Suffering’s power to redeem, liberate and transform The nations into a new Chosen People, compelled To climb, conquer and...