Psalm of my Cross
Fr. Ed Hays
With wisdom deeper than the oceans, you have fashioned with great love
a special cross for each of us.
May my Lenten gift this year be to more clearly see
my cross as a Jacob’s ladder, rising to you
out of my painful, troubled sea.
I place my hand with trust, into the hand of my Gethsemani Guide,
so that I might joyfully embrace everything that I would
gladly prefer to discard as disgrace
everything that makes up my cross,
my way to you, Beloved God.
Open my heart this day that I may see with eyes of truth
whether the painful cross I bear as mine,
claiming it as holy burden,
does indeed come from you, my God –
or if by chance my cross is one of my own creation.
Teach me this day not to carry my cross
but rather the Jacob’s ladder of your will.
Guide me as I seek with all my heart
to climb it daily as a sacred spiral staircase,
spiraling in sacrificial splendor,
winding ever wider, ever higher, opening me more and more
to Your wisdom and will, to becoming one in You.
Submitted by Pat Russell
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