Feb 19, 2016 | Lent, prayer
I need you. As simple as that… if only I didn’t hate so much to be in need, didn’t fight so much against all that you are and all that you provide. As simple as that… if only you didn’t frustrate me so eternally and elude me so very...
Feb 18, 2016 | Lent, nature, prayer
Rain down with the faith we are lacking. Well up with the grace we are needing. Break open the seeds of hope we are missing. Pluck the harvest of bountiful justice we are craving. Glisten and dance with the faithful love we are chasing. on Isaiah...
Feb 17, 2016 | Lent, prayer
What credit is it to your glory to your reputation for resurrection if you do not make something of this pain, if you do not fertilize hope somewhere somehow deep within this pile of injustice and death, if you do not plant the dream the actual possibility that...
Feb 16, 2016 | communion, discipleship, grace, Lent, prayer
Bless this bread, bless this gather, may we live for you each hour. Send us out with bread not stone, so that no one eats alone. In a world full of fear keep us always drawing near to your body in each place where we might again learn grace. Bless this bread, bless...
Feb 15, 2016 | images of God, Lent, prayer
There you are, as clear as my own face in the mirror. It makes me smile to see you, to know you: beautiful and bold, wild with energy and creativity, a complicated mystery even as I behold you, not lacking in cheekiness to keep me always on my toes. I lament and wish...
