Lent 16 (The Woman at the Well)

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...

Lent 15 (Isaiah 54:3)

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...

Lent 14

Pause.Breathe.Feel the ache of longingfor peace of mind andpeace of world.Find God in the keenness.Pause.Breathe.Let the unsettling be as it is:the pain of love or thepain of loss.Meet God in the unresolved.Pause.Breathe.Tune in to the problematicwithout quick fixes...

Lent 13

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...

Lent 11

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...

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