Tag: Blackout Poetry

• Embracing God’s Presence: Care, Attention, and Sharing

  

  Now!Give heed!I am teaching: Observe,live,enter… The God of your ancestors is giving you… Keep the Lord your God,observe diligently…show wisdom and discernment. Surely, is god so near…whenever we call. Care,and watch closely.Neither forget the thingsyour eyes have seen,nor let them slip –Make them known! Reading this poem after I’d gone through the blackout poetry process…

  Annabelle

  August 30, 2024

  Poetry, Reflection, Spiritual Practices

  Attention, Blackout Poetry, Noticing, Poem, Revised Common Lectionary, Scripture

• Gracious Gift (Romans 3:19-28)

  

  A poem and some ponderings for Reformation Sunday.

  Annabelle

  October 27, 2023

  Poetry, Prayer, Reflection

  Blackout Poetry, Poem, Prayer, Reformation

• Psalm 42 Remix

  

  A deer longs…My soul thirsts…The living God –Come and behold! Continuallyremember,pour out –throngin processionwith shoutsand songs,keeping festival! Cast down?Disquieted? Hope. My help,my God!Remember. All,Steadfast love,God of my life,My rock –Why forgotten? Walk mournfully?Dead-ly?Continually? Hope in God –Help! © Annabelle P. Markey

  Annabelle

  October 1, 2023

  Poetry, Prayer

  Blackout Poetry, Poem, Prayer

• “Follow Me” (Matthew 16:24-28)

  

  Jesus told his disciples,“My followersdeny themselves,take up their cross,follow me.Truly I tell you,taste death…see the Son of Mancoming in his kingdom.” While praying my daily lectio divina practice with Matthew 16:24-28, the words that caught my attention were “will not taste death.” As I sat with those words for a little while and entered into…

  Annabelle

  September 2, 2023

  Poetry, Prayer, Reflection

  Blackout Poetry, Poem, Scripture