let the rocks cry out

“Lest a rock cry out in my place, I lift my whole life in praise”

           From “Common Prayer’  A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

“Let us show Jesus honor, now with olive branches, but with the splendor of merciful deeds to one another”

          Andrew of Crete

Let your yes be yes and your no be no

Let your yes be seen in your doing

Let your no be not-doing

If you say yes, but do-not-do, it is no

So, forget all your talk

Tell me by what you do

          Padraig O’Tuama

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When the Sacred arrives

Whether riding on a donkey

Or in the rising of the sun

Or in the homeless one who stumble across our way

We are called to praise

It is not so much that we are called to lift our voices

In joyful Psalms

Or wave branches

It is more that our souls are enlivened

The embers of devotion and love stirred

By the divine wind

Until they flame out

And we live God’s praise

Through acts of tender mercy

This is our yes

Our yes to Sacred, to Love

Our acts of compassion

And generosity

And inclusion

This is our no

Our holding back those words of anger

Our refusal to abuse

Or hoard

Or exclude

We are Sacred Children

created, as is all creation

for praise of the creator

lest a rock cry out in our place

let us life our whole life in praise