Oct 25, 2011 | nature, prayer
God, meet me now like a star in the bareness and chill of the deepening night — an unfaltering, uncompromising beacon — so that I gasp at the beauty and no longer weep over the darkness.
Oct 21, 2011 | nature, prayer-writing
Come: laugh, twirl, be silly with delightover the downward spiralof the maple’s helicopters.Rejoice in this!Be in this moment with Me!Come: stare, linger, even pull overto step out of your car and aweat the glimpses of red on a gliding hawk’s tail.Rejoice...
Oct 18, 2011 | lament, prayer, scripture
Dammit, God, stop knocking my hip out of joint!
Oct 17, 2011 | images of God, poem, prayer-writing
It’s a long path,with bends out of sightand dense fog on most days,so I concentrate on my stepsand on knowing You within them.Today:a lightness,a slower pace,a reflection of the satisfied joythat makes the trees burst with color;and You:the unencumbered Air,the...
Oct 12, 2011 | church, scripture, sermon
Paul’s letter to Philemon is a small little letter with a long and troubled history. From the latter days of the Roman Empire through 19th-century America, the letter to Philemon was interpreted by pro-slavery proponents as Paul’s intercession to convince...
