Feb 23, 2015 | Lent, love, prayer, stories
Tell me, Eternal Lover, do you love me for who I am or for who you are? I daresay you love me because you can’t help yourself, not because I am terribly special or adorable. I don’t think I mind if you love for the sake of love (in that equation I still...
Feb 22, 2015 | confession, images of God, Lent, prayer, psalm
Are you not your own strongest critic, O God, more disciplined in character than the whole assembly of gods? For your demand of yourself adherence to the ancient covenant, though generation after generation we cast our promises to you into the fire and dance wildly...
Feb 21, 2015 | hope, joy, Lent, prayer
Just one step toward the water and another toward an impossibility Two steps then a sidestep of hesitation and now we’re dancing: approaching and turning trusting and waiting dreaming and fearing slow-quick-quick a rumba with God between a rock and a hard place...
Feb 20, 2015 | lament, Lent, prayer
Remember, O God. Let not your ear be disconnected from your heart, your eye disassociated from your memory. Listen. Look. Remember. Ask yourself, Most Holy One — where have you witnessed pain and hopelessness before? Do your eyes remember seeing the backs bent...
Feb 19, 2015 | blessing, justice, lament, Lent, prayer
Shall it always be, O God, that one be given favor and the other be cast to wilderness? Must it be that one alone may feast while his brother scrambles for crumbs; that a sister dances and twirls with delight while her twin laments amidst ashes? What justice is it if...