Lenten Devotions in Hard Economic Times

TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF LENT 
                  MARCH 22
  
 Psalm 31: 15 
 

My times are in Your hand.
 
The future breaks the surface
Of the present,
An iceberg on the horizon,
A thing of glittering beauty,
Gusting off the cold of fear.
 
Into Your hand I entrust my future.
 
The future looms,
Its unseen foundation a menace,
Reaching back in time,
To chill the now.
 
My times are in Your hand.
 
The range of time is beyond us,
How far does the scope of the past extend?
Where does now connect with then?
When present and future meet,
Will harsh cold collide
With body heat,
And freeze us to the core?
Or will the shimmering rainbow mountain
Cool the fevered desperation,
Extinguish the raging greed and violence,
Calculated to
Incinerate our hopes?
 
Into Your hand I entrust my future.
 

Psalm from New Revised Standard Version of the Bible and from
 Redemption Songs-A 21st Century Descant on the Psalms
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