by Roxanne Sperry | Apr 30, 2022 | The Lassie's Lair
Abba Abba Hear my cry I stand among the legions and I am set apart in a pillar of icy loneliness My soul is preserved in cherry amber My weeping is like a song of mourning bowed on the strings of a dark cello I am trapped below the bitter waters of the River Jordan...
by Roxanne Sperry | Apr 30, 2022 | The Lassie's Lair
God Almighty creator of heaven and earth We beseech you On bent knee we kneel before you wearing sackcloth and ashes on our head Our garments are torn and our hearts are broken We have sinned against your creation Now the flames of our idolatry consume all that lives...
by Roxanne Sperry | Apr 5, 2022 | The Lassie's Lair
Never before has it become so clear to me through the fog of war that the mysterious space between nonhumans and humans is filled with divinity. To be perfectly blunt again and again I have read stories of citizens of Ukraine refusing to be separated from the...
by Roxanne Sperry | May 27, 2021 | The Lassie's Lair
River Rocks and Dogs If you have ever loved a dog, then you know the pain and sadness that comes to you when the dog’s life ends. I am better for the life of a dog. The dog, works in our life, much the same as the flowing water in the river that smooth the rocks...
by Roxanne Sperry | May 27, 2021 | The Lassie's Lair
I stood alone. No, I stood on the path to the beach captured in the gaze of one of God’s creatures; I was not alone. On foggy days the veil is thin. Time, space and sound are transformed by the mystery that lives in the fog. There was a soothing and nurturing blanket...
