Dec 7, 2015 | Advent, images of God, prayer
Jesus, for love of the game, come at long last to be the wise & fair soccer ref that is needed! Be the One with the integrity of sight to recognize fouls and off-sides! Be the One with the clarity of voice to make calls swiftly and with impartiality! Be the One...
Dec 6, 2015 | Advent, love, prayer
There is not enough. Let there be more. Bring about more, O God. More love. Like rain for the desert: more love. Like salve for the wounded: more love. We are thirsting and hurting. More love, O God. Love to wash away the fear that hides in our eyes; Love to dissolve...
Dec 5, 2015 | Advent, poem
Starting tomorrow, Continuing today, Finishing yesterday. Birthing later, Dying now, Renewing before. With judgment in the by and by, Surrender while the sun still shines, Plowshares once upon a time. Delight when the mountains are made low, Peace when the waters...
Dec 4, 2015 | Advent, prayer
Yet I will rejoice. Despite, because of, and through. I will rejoice. Whenever and however. No matter and always. I will rejoice. Though empty, I will be full of your joy. Though desolate, I will surround myself with your stories. Breathless, I will fill my lungs with...
Dec 3, 2015 | Advent, confession, prayer
I am the child at a parade: “Put me up on your shoulders, I want to see!” I am Zacchaeus behind the crowd: “Give me a leg up into this tree, I want to see!” I am the Christmas-present-shaker, the “give me sky-writing” pray-er, the...
