May 13, 2011 | nature, prayer, prayer-writing, scripture
I reach for you like a weary flower stretching out its rootssearching far and wide through the dirtto find light and richness and beauty;and it takes me a while, most cunning God,to see what I’ve already found in my hungry rummaging:I’ve found the Dirt:...
May 6, 2011 | prayer, prayer-writing, scripture
Say, o my spirit, that the joy of the goodness of Godis more than enough to keep you generous in love.Believe, o my soul, that the possibilities of the Divineare more than enough to sustain you through the turmoil.Rise up, o my spirit, with peace from the Fiery...
May 3, 2011 | books, prayer-writing
Friends and readers, If you would like to continue the prayer-writing journey that you began with Writing to God: 40 Days of Praying with My Pen, or if you haven’t used Writing to God yet but you’re interested in an engaging spiritual discipline for your...
May 1, 2011 | resurrection, scripture, sermon
I love that on this first Sunday after Easter — after all of the fanfare and the music and the beauty and the hope and the incredible “Wow!” of resurrection — one week later the lectionary gives us the story of Thomas, gives us the space of a...