Lent 5 (To The Eternal Lover)

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...

Lent 4 (Rumba)

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...

Lent 3 (Remember)

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...

Lent 2 (Blessing)

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...

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