Mar 10, 2011 | joy, Lent, prayer
on the asphalt shorelinesof a silver-black puddleI find my prayer:for stillness amidst the busyness,for delight in each drop of connectedness,for awareness of the ripples that I causeand grace for the ones with which I collide,for a light heart on this hide-your-head...
Mar 9, 2011 | Lent, scripture, sermon
Ash Wednesday has a particular set of Scripture readings that vary only slightly from one year to the next. Many of those traditional Ash Wednesday readings call us to repentance and announce the beginning of a fast, a time of drawing close to God through prayer and...
Mar 9, 2011 | grace, Lent, prayer
Timeless God, You without beginning or end:Do you know how hard it is to begin?Especially such a beginning as Ash Wednesday,this odd day of mortality and palm dust, thiscelebration (of a sort) with pungent remnantsof the previous year’s Alleluiasmixed with oil...
Mar 6, 2011 | grace, quotation
We seldom notice how each day is a holy placeWhere the eucharist of the ordinary happens,Transforming our broken fragmentsInto an eternal continuity that keeps us.Somewhere in us a dignity presidesThat is more gracious than the smallnessThat fuels us with fear and...
Mar 1, 2011 | justice, ministry, women
So a friend of mine, a young woman who is entering ministry, has sent me interview questions about women in church leadership — and about my sense of myself as a church leader — for her studies in seminary. The timing of her interview request is uncanny:...
