Prayerfully Poetic

A Collection of Prayerful Poems by Tim McGee

#Mercy

  • After Three Days

    Let us turn backnot as the certainbut as the woundedfinding our way by ache We were torn with the veiland the tearing taught us our namesWe were struckand learned the language of need After the long second nightwhen hope learns how to kneellife stirs beneath the sealed stone of habitand waits for morning On the… Read more

  • Mercy

    Is not a wordbut a movement.It stoops beside the broken man,bleeding by the road,and will not pass by. It does not tally wrongslike coins in a ledger,but breaks the scaleand offers bread instead. Mercy speaks softlyto the woman in shame,“Neither do I condemn you,”and in the same breath:“Go, sin no more.”It is not indulgence.It is… Read more

  • The Abyss of Mercy

    There is an oceandeeper than sorrow,wider than the cry of a thousand aching hearts.It is Mercy,unfolding from the pierced side of Christ,spilling into the dust of our ruin. Faustina saw it:a torrent of Light,two rays like living breath,one of blood and one of water,justice and pardon,the wound and the healing,the cross and the crown. She… Read more