Praise for Green

Praise God, on this spring morning, for the spectrum of greens! Praise for the emerald green of ivy climbing the dark tree bark! Praise for the gray green, almost blue, of onion grass sprouting tall! Praise for the sunlit lime green of new leaves budding on tall oaks!...

Sisterhood

People are fond of asking “Where is God?” when life becomes difficult.*** Or we look out across the oceans (always away from ourselves) at war and disease and poverty, and we ponder how to find a loving God in the midst of such chaos. I believe, if you...

Easter Sunday

And so Lent comes to its end, Easter marks the completion, and I pray, o most holy God, for what is, in fact, a beginning: life new and renewing the impossible to be believed joy that cannot be quenched and always, everywhere I look every place I turn, your endless...

Lent 40 (Holy Saturday)

Today I wait, at a loss, Because everything I thought I knew Everything I hoped for Has died. Today I have no prayers Because what if it is God who took it all away? I could not bear it, So I do not ask. Today there is nothing to do But sit in silence. And breathe....

Lent 39 (Good Friday)

In these days full of shadows and crosses,O God who reigns over both death and life,be close to those for whom Good Fridayis not a ceremonybut a daily reality…

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