Mar 18, 2012 | Lent, sermon
Snakes! Real snakes — slithering, coiling, climbing, with fascinating ability to move and navigate without limbs! Harmless garter snakes, long black snakes, rattlesnakes, tree snakes, cobras, water snakes. Snakes that we’ve been taught to fear ever since...
Mar 17, 2012 | Lent, nature, quotation
Lord God, mercy is in your hands, pourme a little. And tenderness too. Myneed is great. Beauty walks so freelyand with such gentleness. Impatience putsa halter on my face and I run away overthe green fields wanting your voice, yourtenderness, but having to do with...
Mar 16, 2012 | books, review
From ChristianBookPreviews.com: “This book could be functional for elementary school children wanting to be more creative in their approach to prayer, but, interestingly enough, it contains suggestions that many adults would find original and stimulating...
Mar 16, 2012 | Lent, psalm, scripture
“The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, the dawn and the darkness:the LORD is his name!” (Amos 5:8)The one who paints pinstripes on the underside of hemlock needles:the ARTIST is his name!The one who pushes up a dandelion through the sidewalk...
Mar 15, 2012 | grace, Lent, wholeness
Pick the scabPress the bruiseGawk at the newsStare at the bronze serpentReplay the scenes of our mistakesHow long will we remain fascinated by our own woundedness,as if our ability to trip and bleed, our inclination to war and rage,are new discoveries that lend...
