Dec 10, 2016 | Advent, joy
o my soul open your doors to praise and your gates to delight. let not your strength wane or your hope fade but welcome the wonder of unknowing and satisfy your curiosity with the fullness of the present. o my soul in all your angst and yearning open your doors to...
Dec 9, 2016 | Advent, nature, prayer
as natural as beauty to a crocus as natural as wonder to an infant as natural as silence to the cemetery as natural as perspective to the endless ocean so is your praise to creation so is your justice to the nations so is your faithfulness to grace and mercy on Isaiah...
Dec 8, 2016 | Advent, joy, prayer
You catch me up in your love and grace so much that I blush and giggle with the carefree delight that escapes my lips at your invitation. Life being the tumult that it is, I’m amazed how you infiltrate my spirit’s cynicism with your mischief. Never stop....
Dec 7, 2016 | Advent, images of God, mystery, nature, prayer, vocation
No amount of straining or swimming, of longing or praying can free me from the currents of life that I think myself so adept in navigating. For the stream runs on without a care and the storms come (inevitably, invariably) to show off their lack of care and deference....
Dec 6, 2016 | Advent, lament, prayer, theodicy
Still I wait. Still I listen. Still there is only disappointment. We have waited. We have hoped. Perhaps now at long last God will answer the generations who have cried. Perhaps. But here — here is a shoulder for comfort until God comes. Unless God doesn’t...
