Psalm 139 Archives - Eileen Campbell-Reed

March 21, 2012Keeper of the Fire - Year B Lent 2012 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VII

Visio Divina: Psalm 139 There are so many amazing and multi-layered images in Psalm 139. It has been a good companion through the season of Lent. (You can read more in previous posts: Lent I, Lent III and Lent VI.) The psalm…

March 19, 2012Keeper of the Fire - Year B Lent 2012 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VI

Examen Psalm 139:7-12* Nearly five hundred years ago (1521), a young man named Ignatius went off to war. He was injured with a cannonball and had to return home to the Basque region of Spain to recover. As he recuperated…

March 4, 2012Keeper of the Fire - Year B Lent 2012 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent III

Praying from the Pit Psalm 139: 17-22* 17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end—I am still…

February 27, 2012Keeper of the Fire - Year B Lent 2012 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent I

Praying Psalm 139:1-6* Lectio Divina (Divine Reading) Throughout Lent this year we will be gathering along the way for worship and within this time of worship we will sing and pray and walk along together led by Psalm 139.…

February 15, 2012Epiphany 2012 Keeper of the Fire - Year B by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Epiphany IX

Psalm 139 on a Wednesday night When I speak to children I speak in a voice that gathers them in Even while they tumble across the carpet Like puppies with clothes They whine and yip and yelp occasionally But when…

February 4, 2012Epiphany 2012 Keeper of the Fire - Year B by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Epiphany VI

Contemplating Lent Lent. A season of preparation. And repentance. Preparation, I can get with. Repentance, that’s harder to face. Preparing is one of those things I can do. Maybe even when I can’t do the thing itself. Family lore says…

April 6, 2011Keeper of the Fire - Year A Lent 2011 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VIII

Out of the Depths The “depths” in life come in a lot of forms. I hear the psalmist’s plea, “out of the depths I cry to you O LORD.” And I am taken to the pits of despair. But despair…

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