Lenten Flowers, Lenten Psalm

Dear Reader, I hope that you enjoy these pictures. I’ve had flower pictures on my brain since last week when I decided that this week I would join the participants of Today’s_Flowers created by Brazillian Luiz Santilli Jr., which I found at Fishing Guy’s This_Is_My_Blog.

I thought for sure the flower I would have for this post would have been my much awaited for daffodils but my Hellebore with snow on them captured my eye last night.

I got home just in time, the snow was beginning to accumulate on the road way. These pictures were taken hastily last night, I didn’t have much time to dwell on picture taking as I was getting home rather late with homemade burritos and handmade-from-scratch salsa on the a-little-taste-of-summer menu. The timing for last night’s menu could not have been more needed.

Lenten Images

Lord God I will not be weighted down
not even with all that surrounds me.

Your perfection speaks through the ages
and is greater than all that presses in.

No matter the darkness, no matter the isolation
My heart is not dark and my spirit is not alone.

The weight of evil may seem to be a crushing thing,

But you my Lord God are more than anything.

You, Lord God, with the Word and the Holy Spirit, spoke

at the beginning of time and all that I know became made.

From you Lord God nothing can

parade in secret, all is known.

My head can lift from my cold pillow

because it is Your hand that lifts it.

There is no weight greater, no accumulated weight, greater,

than the might in Your hand, no weight causes You strain.

The icy fingers of death and destruction, though they try to surround,

fail in their attempt to crush those who know the Source of Life.

Our heads can lift and they lift to You

they lift in Your song in Your warmth.

You make our eyes shine bright

and our hearts sing Your praises.

Within You is everything.