Tag Archives: longing

Saoirse

Posted on August 2, 2017 by anyushka

Listen to this:  “Saoirse”, The Gloaming     (Cover of The Gloaming’s 2013 self-titled album, photo titled “Passage” by by Robert and Shana Parke Harrison) The official album info on the The Gloaming website says that this song “speak[s] to the … Continue reading →

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Drawn

Posted on April 6, 2017 by anyushka

  Prayer, the expression of our desire for God and our relationship with God, is not something we control, it is what we are drawn to. Ann Lewin

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Hope?

Posted on November 29, 2015 by anyushka

So it is the first Advent Sunday today. I did hang a paper star in the window. I decorated a little tree. And I keep thinking that I don’t feel at all “Christmassy”. I don’t feel at all filled with … Continue reading →

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River

Posted on August 20, 2015 by anyushka

Down by the river, under the trees, love waits for me to walk from the journeying years of my time and arrive. I part the leaves and they toss me a blessing of rain. ….. The river stirs and turns, … Continue reading →

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Leipzig

Posted on August 5, 2015 by anyushka

I have no idea what I’ll be writing about, really. What is Leipzig to me? It’s a recent conversation with a friend about why I’m not in Germany, and why there is the possibility again of returning. Talking of feeling … Continue reading →

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Creeping into God

Posted on July 1, 2015 by anyushka

Originally posted on Richer By Far:
“Our need of Him is but an echo of His need of us.” Abraham Heschel “I strain toward God; God strains toward me. I ache for God; God aches for me. Prayer is mutual…

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There Is Someone I Must Become

Posted on February 4, 2015 by anyushka

“My loneliness attracts me to the feet of Jesus. Like a magnet I am drawn there, longing to be all one with God. The separateness I keep choosing makes me desperately homesick, and so I am willing, at last, to … Continue reading →

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Thirst

Posted on October 1, 2014 by anyushka

                   I thirst for God/ and parched I always come to ask for more/ I thirst and only short is my relief when I sit down and eat/ you offer full and … Continue reading →

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God/ Ever Longed For

Posted on October 1, 2014 by anyushka

  God/ ever longed for/ ever found/ ever out of reach/ ungraspable/ unnameable/ and yearned for more than life itself/ make yourself known to me/ I make my home with you exactly as I am/ you are the bread I … Continue reading →

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God’s Prayer In Us

Posted on August 1, 2014 by anyushka

The goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it descends to the lowest level of our need. Julian of Norwich   God prays in us, God prays her goodness into us – and this prayer is the purest and … Continue reading →

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