Mar 26, 2011 | Lent, prayer, scripture
See these secrets, and these pains, that I’ve been holding all these years, Holy Stranger; let me lay them out before you so that I don’t have to carry them alone anymore. Let me lay them out before me to examine them again. And when our conversation is...
Mar 25, 2011 | Lent, psalm, scripture
Let the LORD be a tent in the place of devastation,with endless canvas stretched out to create shadeand stakes firmly planted against quake and storm and flood.Let the LORD be a shelter to the east and the west,as far to the north and the south as there is needso that...
Mar 23, 2011 | Lent, peace, prayer, theodicy
Today I wonder whether you can, in fact, make it all better, God. Because if you can … but you don’t (some divine moral issue with intervention??) … then perhaps we should really just say that you can’t. Because you won’t.Or is it the...
Mar 21, 2011 | Lent, prayer, Spirit
You have unsettled meand changed my plans;You have nudged me in a new direction,and I’m not sure, Spirit, but I might beangry with you about it(or at least disgruntled).You have stirred my lifeto take a risk, and I would likesome guaranteesthat this will go...