Mar 31, 2017 | Lent, prayer, writing
It’s not even a prayer, O Wild Whisper. It’s merely words strung together, bumbles of syllables and sounds, mutterings and half-finished thoughts, vain longings and (when I’m not careful) a snippet of heart truths that I prefer to keep to myself. I...
Mar 30, 2017 | Lent, prayer, thanksgiving
I am willing not to know, O God. By which I mean, damn I don’t know at all, so let me make peace with it anyway. By which I mean, thank goodness you are God and I am not. By which I mean, patience is overrated. By which I mean, I am overwhelmingly grateful for...
Mar 28, 2017 | blessing, Lent, prayer, resurrection
The seeds of tears growing impossibly as a harvest of joy. You did this. The storms of disappointment yielding impossibly to the radiance of blessings. You did this. The long winter of fear thawing impossibly for a spring of solidarity. You did this. May all that...
Mar 27, 2017 | lament, Lent, prayer
I struggle for You it seems impossible — or is it terribly predictable — that You are not here time is without purpose without You reach across the depths, God, call me Yours again call me beloved again call again on Psalm...