Jan 30, 2015 | Jesus, prayer
What have you to do with us, Jesus: with our constant wars and our unending words? with our busy work and our tumultuous relationships? with our hubris, our discontent, our mess? What have you to do with my email messages or my daily cup of coffee or my electricity...
Jan 26, 2015 | Lent, liturgy, Monday Muse, worship
CALL TO WORSHIP (Joel 2:1-2, 12-17) One: Drop everything at the call of the trumpet! Two: Flee from your security at the cry of the protester! One: Leave your “to do” list, put down your calendar. Two: Come right now and seek a new path. One: It’s...
Jan 23, 2015 | images of God, psalm
The LORDÂ alone is my rock: the firm ground beneath my feet, the foundation built by centuries of life and hardship and compression, the reliable place when all else quakes and trembles God alone is my screen time: the shining light that holds my gaze, the comforting...
Jan 18, 2015 | discipleship, prayer
Ah holy God, you find us in the wilderness, under the fig tree, day by day by day. You find us and you test us to learn if we can be faithful, to discern if we know how to repent, day by day by day. You test us and you call us across the sea, throughout the night, day...