Mar 22, 2012 | Lent, prayer-writing
It’s bath time! “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalm 51:7, NRSV). “Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean; scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life” (The...
Mar 22, 2012 | church, writing
“Language — the handling of words — is no small sacred cow among Christians, yet it may be one of our most measurable examples of human finitude. Like grass, language flourishes and withers, seemingly overnight. Words trend. Communication changes....
Mar 21, 2012 | courage, Lent, nature, Spirit
“Courage!” She whispersto the closed daffodil.”But it’s cold and dark,”the sleepy flower shivers.She twinkles in the dew.”Courage! Come out,watch the sunrise!””Courage!” She callsto the geese honking.”This is...
Mar 20, 2012 | Lent, prayer-writing
Let all of my “stuff” –my activities, my emotions, my stresses– be permeated by your silence,like the spaces between fence slatsor the sun’s rays through the clouds,like the infinitesimal space of movementbetween the quivering atoms in a...
Mar 19, 2012 | lament, Lent, news, prayer
There are no words for the bloodshed.Perhaps that’s why You are silent.There is no lament that keens deeply enoughSo let the psalmists set down their lyres.Your children are being shot, burned, stolen.Is it possible for the Divine to experience shock?The Spirit...
