Feb 27, 2015 | comfort, Lent, prayer
Take me home from my wandering Home from my seeking Home from the hamster-wheel-running Home from the endless wheel-spinning Home to rest and let be Take me home, O God Most Holy, our ever-present and ever-moving Shelter on 2 Samuel...
Oct 26, 2014 | comfort, death, prayer
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: O God, this is our confession. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: a litany of sorrow and regret. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: this the best and barest truth. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: at the last, we forfeit this life. Ashes to ashes,...
Jun 27, 2014 | comfort, death, prayer
We were here. Now we are not. Even “here” is gone. What we have known as life Now we will know as history While tomorrow remains only hearsay We would set a stone if we could A marker to say, “Here was change” A memorial to acknowledge,...
May 10, 2014 | comfort, peace, scripture
For everything there is not enough time: not enough time to work or to rest, to savor or to surrender, to remember or to dream. Not enough time, not enough! But the One Who Holds All Time whispers: What are you trying to do beyond what I have given you to do? What...
Jan 17, 2014 | comfort, prayer
I take your hand because the way is lonely and it helps to know you’re there. I take your hand because I get cold feet sometimes but your warmth pulses with courage. I take your hand because it makes me blush and turns my steps into a dance. I take your hand...
Nov 20, 2013 | church, comfort, images of God, lament
[the Body is God’s love incarnate] I miss your Body. Not any general Body but your very particular Body. I miss the way your Body smells — your Sunday morning coffee fragrance, the fresh flowers you set out for every season, the incense of bread and wine...
