Voices
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill is an author, lecturer and biblical scholar. For our Lenten reflection series she offers her own translation of many of the Psalms. She is also the co-author, with Joseph Papp, of Shakespeare Alive!
FaithLent Reflections
Rather than subordinate our own ambitions and desires to God’s plan, we often close our ears and tune out his voice.
FaithLent Reflections
With the smartphone now functioning as an essential anatomical appendage, it is harder than it has ever been to make distinctions, to turn off the noise, to say “Enough.”
FaithLent Reflections
We have experienced God’s benevolent interventions in our own lives.
FaithLent Reflections
We are invited, today, to listen—and as the psalmist today colorfully puts it, God has even done us the courtesy of digging out our ears so that we can hear.
FaithLent Reflections
Even in our relationships with family and friends, forgiveness can be hard to come by.
FaithLent Reflections
Even when events are messy and motives are questionable and hardships abound, we must trust that God’s unknowable power is at work.
FaithLent Reflections
Most of us are so removed from agricultural realities that we fail fully to embrace the image of chaff in today’s psalm.
FaithLent Reflections
Do we still believe there are “evil spirits who prowl through the world, seeking the ruin of souls,” as the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel memorably phrases it?
FaithLent Reflections
Over against our human unreliability stand the rock-solid assurances of God.
FaithLent Reflections
Today and everyday we are invited to pray with the psalmist.