Mar 13, 2016 | images of God, Lent, nature, prayer
You show up unbidden, unsought like the weather like Orion across the winter’s skies, like daffodil greens in early spring pushing through the mud and suddenly I remember what I’d forgotten: that you are joy and beauty and love and life; that you are...
Mar 12, 2016 | confession, Lent, mental health, prayer
email bills bank soccer soccer store email store laundry homework email email If I accomplish all these things (and a few more) — are you listening, God? — then I will be satisfied with this day from sunrise to sunset. I’m telling you all that I hope...
Mar 11, 2016 | Lent, psalm
The LORD makes a way through the sea, charts a course across the wilderness, and confuses the plots of the armies. The LORD God — yes, this is the very one: who does not leave us alone when storms rage or without a help when the floodwaters rise, who pierces...
Mar 10, 2016 | confession, Lent, prayer
The bare truth, Jesus: I don’t know if it’s harder to believe that you can or to confess that I cannot. on Mark 9:22b-23
Mar 9, 2016 | Lent, prayer
It must be like déjà vu, God — you’ve been here before, seen this before, watched us have these arguments before, adored us every time we reinvented the wheel before, moved & whispered so that we felt Spirit-led before. Bless your heart, God, for...
