Psalm 88

Agh! God, I am so desperate for your healing that there is a knot of tension in my stomach and I toss & turn through the entire night. You are the source of my soul’s troubling: this terrible absence, this duration of silence in which you have abandoned me...

Bay Grasses (Psalm 90:4-6)

  The tall bay grasses, with their roots entwined around salt-water mussels and their leaves parted for the occasional white egret’s nest, silently mark their time by the ocean’s tides: watermarks of highs and lows, faded lines of flourishing and...

Breathe on me, Breath of God

I breathe in search of you, praying for the Wind to stir the dry leaves of my spirit. I would settle for hearing them scratch against one another, any sign of Life in this otherwise dry & lifeless heat. Come, Wind, and dispel my stagnation, full of vain longings...

The Myth About Pastors

The myth about pastors, simply stated, is that we are helpers; that ours is a helping profession, counted alongside doctors and nurses and emergency responders and teachers and social workers. Over and over again in my ministry, however, I am reminded that pastors are...

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