Category Archives: Powers, Jessica
Look at the chickadee (Repost)
Note: every year I repost this poem because I still love it! A beautiful snow last night and this morning a bird singing outside my window. This brings to mind a poem by Jessica Powers about a chickadee in a snow storm. There is always something to be learned from God’s creatures if we just …
“Birds deserve one whole psalm of thanksgiving”
Birds That God made birds is surely in His favor. I write them as His courtesies of love. Hidden in leaves, they offer me sweet savor of lightsome music; when they streak above my garden wall they brush my scene with color. They are embroideries upon the grass. I write the gayest stitched-in blossoms duller …
To sing with God
The Will of God Time has one song along. If you are heedful and concentrate on sound with all your soul, you may hear the song of the beautiful will of God, soft notes or deep sonorous tones that roll like thunder over time. Not many have the hearing for this music, and fewer still …
A grant of grace
A Sunday-poem by Jessica Powers: Suffering All the day long I spent the hours with suffering. I woke to find her sitting by my bed. She stalked my footsteps while time slowed to timeless, tortured my sight, came close in what was said. She asked no more than that, beneath unwelcome, I might be mindful …
“But Not With Wine”
A Sunday-poem from Jessica Powers: But Not With Wine “You are drunk, but not with wine” (Isaiah 51.21) O god of too much giving, whence is this inebriation that possesses me, that the staid road now wanders all amiss and that the wind walks much too giddily, clutching a bush for balance, or a tree? …
“I have loved thee”
I have been thinking about starting a kind of series for you all: some musings on prayer, some thoughts, some gleanings, probably in random order. I pulled an article out of my files this morning by Jessica Powers, OCD, entitled “Who Hath First Loved Us.” Those five words are the key and the basis for …
“Night is not dark where she shines bright”
That line, taken from the line of a song about Mary, reminds me of a poem by Jessica Powers that Iwould like to share with you this Sunday: And in her morning The Virgin Mary cannot enter into my soul for an indwelling. God alone has sealed this land as secretly His own; but being …
Love letters from God
An interesting twist on “love letters” from God in this piece by Jessica Powers from today’s Magnificat: Sometimes lovely things that are lost. Beautiful things God scatters everywhere. As Walt Whitman said, (in other words), that God is tossing down love letters in the street and everywhere, if only we would watch out for them. …
Look at the Chickadee (Repost)
A repost from a year ago. (I still love this poem!) A beautiful snow last night and this morning a bird singing outside my window. This brings to mind a poem by Jessica Powers about a chickadee in a snow storm. There is always something to be learned from God’s creatures if we just take …
“God is a Strange Lover”
A Sunday-poem from Jessica Powers: God is a Strange Lover God is the strangest of all lovers; His ways are past explaining. He sets His heart on a soul; He says to Himself, “Here will I rest my love.” But He does not woo her with flowers or jewels or words that are set to …
