Jul 3, 2015 | courage, justice, psalm, racism
Would that demons could be sweet-talked into release, that the perfect petition correct niceties best biblical treatise purest sacrifice would send them fleeing over the cliffs. Then the President would sing, then Bree would climb freely, then the sweet by-and-by...
Feb 13, 2015 | courage, faith, hope, justice, prayer
I pray a double portion of spirit and again another for the days are long and the nights drenched with tears too many mothers weeping too many men raging and spirit is needed to keep my ears open, my eyes unblinded, my heart broken A double portion I pray for the...
Sep 5, 2014 | courage, scripture
Thus says the LORD: This is the beginning. It shall have the look of death — you will see blood and hear screams as you scurry to do the last things the final preparations that come with death. But be not afraid. This is the beginning. Hush your children from...
Apr 3, 2014 | confession, courage, Lent, prayer
We cannot (I cannot) face this day without your help. There is too much suffering, too much violence, too much pain unanswered, too much chaos, too much, far too much like the earliest days of creation when all was disarray, tumult, and God had to create space and...
Jan 19, 2014 | courage, discipleship, images of God, prayer
Our praise and prayers, our hopes and heartaches are found in the shadow of your love, O God. We come to you to see who we are and to catch a vision of who we may become. It’s too easy to listen to news, to look in mirrors, and to resign ourselves to the belief...
Dec 13, 2013 | Advent, courage, prayer
4am is the hour of my disquiet. Wide awake in that suspended time, dawn is a dream – too far away, too long in coming for me to escape the heavy blanket of shadows. I should wait patiently … patiently … but I am tempted to escape into sleep. Let dawn...
