Amy Secrist

Tag: Catholic poetry

  • The girls run through the damp grass

    “…whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God…” ~ Romans 14: 6 The girls run through the damp grass in fuchsia, orange, yellow, and red-colored swimming suits, squealing with excitement and anxiety over big brother’s impending splash of water from the pistol, or the bucket. Little brother bounds up the soft slope,…

  • Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (I hear the cardinal)

    I hear the cardinal sound his call, his metallic “chip, chip, chip!” I wonder whom he is warning off, or what he is challenging. I peer up at the nest, notice the shredded, grimy bits of plastic. I think about how nothing is perfect, yet we are challenged to reach perfection. I touch the branch,…

  • Christ in Love; Christ in All Things

    “Through [Christ]…let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.  Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have; God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind.”  ~Hebrews 13: 15-16 My babies have been scooting little cars and trucks over the furniture, have…