Sep 11, 2015 | confession, grace, psalm
Ironic it seems to me that the best times for stillness are dawn and dusk: the cusp times the briefest moments a blooming or a fading that catches your breath and holds it in grace And I like to think that I would be a better person if I could live always in that...
Jun 26, 2015 | confession, poem
“I am not God.” It seems to hint of hubris but in fact this is my hardest, humblest confession: I am not God. Ask me outright if I really want to be and I will deride the idea: “Who in their right mind would want to be God?! Even God doesn’t...
Jun 5, 2015 | confession, prayer, scripture
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? I mark my own iniquities; like a wrathful deity, I catalogue them and the weight of it brings me to my knees. Take notice please, O God, of the trouble I’m saving you. Let your judgment pass me by...
May 17, 2015 | confession, images of God, prayer
To what can we compare your glory, O God? By what measure can we examine your abundance? How can we begin to praise your faithfulness? We are chaff in the field and you the wind that sweeps us about. We are wilting trees and you the flowing stream for our roots. We...
Apr 29, 2015 | confession, Jesus, justice, lament, racism
Two weeks ago, I led a conversation on race and faith, inviting participants to reflect on their experiences of race & ethnicity as well as on the ways that their church upbringings had (or hadn’t) equipped them to respond to racism. “Jesus loves the...
Apr 24, 2015 | confession, news, psalm, Spirit, theodicy
If the Spirit did not sigh for us, over us, I wonder who would. Who would hear our stories in their rawest honesty and sigh in agreement, “Never again”? Who would sit with us in the silence of shadows and trace the dust of memories? Who would hold out the...
