Summer Reading: The God Stories

God made people, because God loves stories. (The Talmud) So quotes Leila Berg as she begins the delightful storytelling of major and lesser-known and only-rumored Old Testament stories in The God Stories (Francis Lincoln Publishers 1999). She wants us to hear the...

Mourning with Jacob (a litany)

We were here. Now we are not. Even “here” is gone. What we have known as life Now we will know as history While tomorrow remains only hearsay We would set a stone if we could A marker to say, “Here was change” A memorial to acknowledge,...

All That I Don’t Know

the wrinkled rhinoceros the stretch of clouds the red moon the next move in chess the juggler’s rhythm the touch screen and more: the fulfillment of God’s Kindom the final success of Love the tenacity of Hope but I am too familiar with the bitterness that...

Taking a Moment

Pausing for peace. Breathing through the fatigue. Listening again for the heartbeat. Clearing space for creativity. Blowing away the dust. Seeing what is. Letting it be.

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