Psalm

In the celebration of Lent, I have begun praying the hours with Thomas Merton. It has been some time since practicing this discipline and thus I am very excited to be practicing this kind of prayer again. In morning prayers today, Thomas wrote an incredibly beautiful psalm about God's love. Thought I would share it as a celebratory Ash Wednesday/First Day of Lent psalm.


The Lord God is present where the new day shines
in the moisture on the young grasses.
The Lord God is present where the small wildflowers
are known to him alone.
The Lord God passes suddenly, in the wind,
at the moment when night ebbs into the ground.
He Who is infinitely great has given o His Children
a share in his own innocence.
His alone is he gentlest of loves: whose pure flame
respects all things.
God, Who owns all things, leaves them all to themselves.
He never takes them for His own,
the way we take them for our own and destroy them.
He leaves them to themselves.
He keeps giving to them, giving them all that they are,
asking no thanks of them save hat they should receive
from Him
and be loved and nurtured by Him,
and that they should increase and multiply,
and so praise Him.
He saw that all things were good, and He did not enjoy
them.
He saw that all things were beautiful and he did not want
them.
His love is not like ours. His love is unpossessive.
His love is pure because it needs nothing.



I pray that today, you welcome the season of Lent with an expectant heart that waits on the Lord. The unpossessive lover and giver of all.

Grace and Peace.