Prayers for the Pilgrimage (2024) es una colección de más de cuatrocientas oraciones que ofrece consuelo y guía en momentos de incertidumbre, inspirada en la experiencia personal del autor durante la pandemia de Covid-19.
The church sorely needs theologically sound songs of the love of God. But it also, I thought, needs songs that will enable us to feel the love of God and to want to live our lives in light of that love.
The psalms tell us that God calls the stars by name. In Luke 1, God calls Elizabeth the “fruitful one” to replace the nickname that people had given her, the “sterile one.” In Luke 7, he calls “beautiful” a woman whom others called “sinner.” In Revelation 2, he gives all of us a white stone with a new name written on it. And the Holy Spirit bears witness of our true name as well, as children of God.
While in the Psalter, as Israel’s hymnal, we encounter the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made both familiar and strange to us, it is in the gospel accounts that we encounter the God of Jesus Christ made even more familiar, even more strange than we ever dared to imagine. Here we encounter an intimate and familial knowledge of God: God as Father, Jesus as our Brother, the Holy Spirit as the abiding Presence.