Apr 16, 2022 | death, relationships
Dear One: I loved you in secret, so I must grieve you in secret. Every revelation from you is now a salve for my grief, and I bless the holy breath that gave birth to my spirit. I once sought you in shadows, now I bury you in the shadows with aloe and myrrh and linen—...
Apr 15, 2022 | death, lament, relationships
How often I’ve thought it would come to this: a battle, a stand-off with swords, a line in the sand between powers; me against you my ally turned into my foe because you were never an ally I trusted; uncertainty mutated into self-doubt projected into...
Mar 29, 2021 | comfort, Jesus, Lent
I’m not interested in your pain having purpose, my Friend, only in the space to grieve what has been done to you. Let no one call these harrowing days a hallowing. The broken flesh is not a fruit to harvest. The tortured earth is not a fortune to reap. The...
Apr 10, 2020 | Lent, prayer, theodicy
You promised, God. You promised. Yet we look backward, we look forward, we look side to side, and surrounding us are the floodwaters of violence and the rains of despair. You promised to remember, but we are drowning. You promised to remember, but we are dying —...
Apr 14, 2019 | communion, Lent, prayer
When we have shouted ourselves hoarseand returned home from the parade,forgive our wavering commitment to love. When we have finished our hymnsand departed from the comforts of worship,forgive our fickle faithfulness. When we have passed the plate of breadand swept up...
