Lenten Devotions in Hard Economic Times

THIRTY-FOURTH DAY OF LENT 
                 MARCH 27
  
 Psalm 31: 9-10, 12 
 
 
Be gracious to me, O God,
For I am in torment;
My eyes dissolve with grief,
My soul and body also.
My life is spend with sorrow,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails
Because of my misery,
And my bones waste away.
I have passed out of memory like one who is dead;
I have become shattered clay.
 
Shattered.
Back to dust.
Disintegrating, imploding,
Sapped by tears,
Vitality fatally diluted,
Out of the solution.
 
Now there is no solution,
No mixture of the substance
Of misery with courage,
Of sorrow with hope.
Only torment.
 
I have passed out of memory like one who is dead;
I have become shattered clay.
 
Restore my solubility, I pray,
Mix together Your deliverance
With my frailty,
Dissolve my despair
In Your compassion.
 
Be gracious to me, O God,
Yours is the Solution I seek.
 
 

Psalm from Redemption Songs-A 21st Century Descant on the Psalms
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