Martha

fussily
set the table,
cooked up the meal,
poured her only good wine.

Mary
sat herself down at his feet.
The sound of his voice
stilled her heart
and filled
her.

O Jesus,

call us to sit at your feet and listen,
to share for a while with you.
that one thing
necessary.

It is for you we long,
you, our
feast.

Abraham bathed
the strangers’
feet.

God’s
response:
a gift of life where
there was no life before.

(His name was Isaac.)

And
so it went,
the friendship, the covenant
between God and all people of all times.

Lord,
let us find you in all who pass by our door.
Let them be sacraments to us.
Let them fill us with
your life.

Christ,
those who suffer with you
will “flame out like shining from shook foil.”

Be
with us.
Help us to shine
as we share your suffering.

 

Anne Osdieck

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Quotation from G.M. Hopkins, S. J., “God’s Grandeur”