Lent 1, 2015

Posted on by James Hart Brumm

cropped-water-drop-with-ripple-hi2

Water:
crashing, rushing,
lifting, tossing, drowning
seeping and eroding, unstopped,
because

ashes
marked us Wednesday;
but here comes the water,
unrelenting, penetrating,
blessing

in drops,
sprinkles, dunkings,
saving from death, through death,
not thwarted nor denied by death:
God’s love.

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Published by James Hart Brumm

I am pastor and teacher at Blooming Grove Reformed Church (RCA) in DeFreestville, just across the Hudson River from Albany, New York, and Director of the Reformed Church Center at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. A historian and a hymn writer, I have been known to force groups of people to sing on occasion.