I led Compline for commission4mission's creative retreat this evening and began by reading Pierre Jean Jouve's 'Evening Prayer' and ended with a poem I began composing this afternoon drawing on the liturgies we used and poems we read:
We awaken to the presence of God here
in this ordinary place, yet make our Morning Prayer
in the spirit of Anglo-Celtic Saxon saints. We seek
the thin thread of grace by which God holds all
knowing that love of victory or profit and pride,
even in our perceived holiness, will close our
ears to his call. Like guilty Pilate washing and
watching, washing and watching, we need grace
and confession. Our Evening Prayer in the sacred
dark closes the ragged wound, as soft curtains
drawn on a day when healing and hope are welded as one.
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