Poets & Saints

Scripture  

Luke 4:1–2, 13 (NRSV)  

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan  

and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,  

where for forty days He was tempted by the devil.  

He ate not…

Scripture  

Psalm 18:28 (NRSV)  

It is You who light my lamp;  

the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.

Refrain  

Even here, Your light finds me.

Poem  

Christian Wiman, from My Bright Abyss

“God goes, belo…

Scripture  

Matthew 6:25–26 (NRSV)  

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,  

or about your body, what you will wear.  

Is not life more than food, …

Scripture  

Hosea 2:14 (NRSV)  

Therefore, I will now allure her,  

and bring her into the wilderness,  

and speak tenderly to her.

Refrain  

The wilderness may feel empty but God is here.

Poem  

Barbara Bro…

Scripture  

John 15:4–5 (NRSV)  

Abide in Me as I abide in you.  

Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine,  

neither can you unless you abide in Me.  

I am the vine, yo…

Scripture  

Luke 15:20 (NRSV)  

But while he was still far off,  

his father saw him and was filled with compassion;  

he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.

Refrain  

You waited for me without…

Scripture  

Micah 6:8 (NRSV)  

He has told you, O mortal, what is good;  

and what does the Lord require of you  

but to do justice, and to love kindness,  

and to walk humbly with your God?

Refrain  

What …

Scripture  

Matthew 11:28–30 (NRSV)  

“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens,  

and I will give you rest.  

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me;  

for I am gentle and humb…

Scripture  

Psalm 139:23–24 (NRSV)  

Search me, O God, and know my heart;  

test me and know my thoughts.  

See if there is any wicked way in me,  

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Refrain  

In stillness…

Scripture  

Psalm 73:23–26 (NRSV)  

Yet I am always with You;  

You hold my right hand.  

You guide me with Your counsel,  

and afterward You will receive me with honor.  

Whom have I in heaven but You?  

A…

Scripture  

Romans 12:4–5 (NRSV)  

For as in one body we have many members,  

and not all the members have the same function,  

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,  

and individually we are membe…

Scripture  

Mark 5:25–34 (NRSV, abridged)  

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years.  

She had heard about Jesus and came up behind Him in the crowd  

and touched H…

Scripture  

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (NRSV)  

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you,  

which you have from God, and that you are not your own?  

For you were bought wit…

Scripture  

Psalm 46:10 (NRSV)  

“Be still, and know that I am God!  

I am exalted among the nations,  

I am exalted in the earth.”  

Refrain  

Beneath the noise, Your breath is still here.

Quote

John Main  

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Scripture  

Isaiah 49:15–16 (NRSV)  

Can a woman forget her nursing child,  

or show no compassion for the child of her womb?  

Even these may forget,  

yet I will not forget you.  

See, I have inscribed y…

Scripture  

Romans 8:26–27 (NRSV)  

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness;  

for we do not know how to pray as we ought,  

but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.  

And God, …

Scripture  

Exodus 3:1–5 (NRSV)  

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,  

the priest of Midian;  

he led his flock beyond the wilderness,  

and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.  

Ther…

Scripture  

2 Corinthians 3:17–18 (NRSV)  

Now the Lord is the Spirit,  

and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  

And all of us, with unveiled faces,  

seeing the glory of the Lord as thou…

Scripture  

Jeremiah 17:7–8 (NRSV)  

Blessed are those who trust in the Lord,  

whose trust is the Lord.  

They shall be like a tree planted by water,  

sending out its roots by the stream.  

It shall not …

Scripture  

Hebrews 11:1–3 (NRSV)  

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,  

the conviction of things not seen.  

Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval.  

By faith we understand that t…