May 10, 2014 | comfort, peace, scripture
For everything there is not enough time: not enough time to work or to rest, to savor or to surrender, to remember or to dream. Not enough time, not enough! But the One Who Holds All Time whispers: What are you trying to do beyond what I have given you to do? What...
May 6, 2014 | lament, psalm
Heartbroken to sing the chorus once so familiar now forgotten, foreign, forced from the tongue across the lips as though without understanding and indeed I no longer understand what I used to love but still I carry on because they expect this song this dance this act...
May 5, 2014 | church, justice, Monday Muse, worship
Oh my, but the Revised Common Lectionary readings for this coming Sunday resonate with me like fingernails down a chalkboard! Today’s Monday Muse for your worship preparation is less encouragement and more caution: beware the pitfalls of easy ecclesiology, of...
May 4, 2014 | prayer, scripture
To walk with you, O Christ, is less poetry than perseverance. We wish that there was not such mystery to this journey, that somehow each step might build our path concretely rather than fading immediately in shifting sand and swelling tide. We forget where we’ve...