“Three Times Holy,” Psalm 29, Rev. Richard Mize

“Three Times Holy,” Psalm 29, Rev. Richard Mize. Trinity Sunday, May 26, 2024. Historic Trinity Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 2301 NE 23rd St., Oklahoma City. Indian Nations Presbytery.
hymns
"Come, Thou Almighty King"
"Come, Great God of All the Ages"
"Sovereign Lord of All Creation"
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Shakespeare Claudius Hamlet
lectionary
tornadoes
metaphor relevance
shared experience
theology God talk
Frederick Buechner
Dung beetle
medieval Saint Godric novel
"He's Everything to Me"
shalom
amen amen amen
“What is prayer? It’s shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who’s to say? It’s the reaching for a hand you cannot touch. … You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will.”
And yet … “Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else waves would dash him on the rocks, or he would drift with witless tides. … And sometimes, by God’s grace, a prayer is heard.”