Mar 18, 2016 | church, discipleship, Lent, peace, prayer
Creating & Advocating God, would that we (like you) could speak a word and it would come into being! Then we would say, “Love!” and suddenly all would be their brothers’ keepers. We would say, “Peace be with you!” and the wars between...
Mar 17, 2016 | images of God, joy, Lent, peace, psalm, Spirit
There’s my Peace: rising with the sun and kissing my face on the breeze. There’s my Peace: laughing in conversation and warming hands with mugs of hot tea. There’s my Peace: standing in determined solidarity and raising her fist against the pressures...
Mar 16, 2016 | images of God, Lent, prayer
my spirit measures: one sunrise for each day one foot in front of the other one load of laundry at a time one breath in, too shallow one sigh out, too weary one bill, then the next one hot cup of tea… it seems i can barely manage these ones and twos and threes...
Mar 15, 2016 | images of God, Lent, prayer
I love you, Most High — not just because you are beautiful in the spring mist, not just because you find me when I have collapsed, not just because you provoke my dreams — but because you are you, intimately part of and wholly separate from all of this,...
Mar 14, 2016 | healing, Jesus, Lent, prayer
I’m sorry that you hurt, God. I don’t know how you bear it but I do know that I’ve been distracted by my own aches. I’m sorry that I can’t do much to ease your pain. I’m sorry that it’s so significant and so constant. Here:...
