May 26, 2009 | images of God, psalm
I have been caught in my Mother’s tenderness.She sees my stress and soothes my forehead.She knows my turmoil and hugs me close.She hears my broken prayers and murmurs her love.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadowof deathof painof angstof...
May 19, 2009 | peace, prayer
In the days to come, will you stretch out your hand and inspire your people, Spirit of the Living God? Will you raise up prophets with tongues of fire to denounce the crimes of war and of hatred, to protest the lukewarm tolerance of discrimination? (And will those...
May 9, 2009 | joy, nature
The honeysuckle flowers are blooming and I am reminded (again) that life’s surprising joys, its cycles of hibernation and renewal, are not dependent on my successes or failures.