Make my ears new

"Face To Face" Archive

Poetic Responses to Psalms and Scripture

Give me discernment, that I may observe your law

and keep it with all my heart.

Ps. 119:34

Make my ears new

or I might wake,

a pillow molded over my head,

oblivious to You.

Lean toward me

as I talk with my children.

Pull close.

I can almost tell it’s You.

Those two parents on the playground

grumbling, the rude barrista—

I know they’re hoarding

secret notes You’ve sent.

My eyes scrutinize

grumpy faces.

Yell, if You have to,

but let me hear.

Every day

I need to know You’ve come.

-- By: Ms. Karen Jessee, OP - - a member of the Dominican Laity, St. Mary Magdelene Group in Raleigh, NC. She writes and teaches, living with her husband and children near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Face to Face Archive

Please click on a Title below for Karen's "Prayer Poems":
(The newest ones are listed first.)

• Everyday Vocation •
• A bruised reed •
• Liturgy of the Hours •
• The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. •
• Transparancy •
• Even at night •
• Oh God •
• Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord? •
• Certainty •
• Together let us •
• I kept it secret. •
• His will in their minds •
• Make my ears new •
• On the day I called •
• Let God arise •
• Though I have spoken •
• Show yourself perfect •
• Praise Is Fitting •
• Upright •
• Into the desert •
• He Stooped Down To Me •