Mar 31, 2015 | confession, Lent, mystery
The worst of all sins: the willful concealing of the self before the very Being and Lover of all selves …yet I must ask: how can I do otherwise? For you with your passion for love have drawn near but then left me too exposed vulnerable to knowing, vulnerable...
Mar 25, 2015 | confession, images of God, Lent, poem
The worst of all sins: the rejection of the Parent by the children. An intense contraction: the desire to be born without sharing credit, the will to become the pregnant creator all by ourselves. We came into being through You but chose not to know You. on John...
Mar 24, 2015 | confession, justice, Lent, prayer, scripture
I call bull*. Tell me, Jesus, what good is the kingdom of God to those who are barely scraping by, living paycheck-to-paycheck (or not even!) without a moment of relief to separate the hours of haunting stress? What good is a heavenly feast to someone who’s not...
Mar 22, 2015 | church, confession, Lent, prayer
Dear Jesus, I like to think that snark is a spiritual gift, that the well-executed side eye is a liturgical act, that being driven to inwardly climb walls is an act of spiritual sacrifice. Sarcasm and self-righteous frustration are essential spiritual disciplines for...
Mar 17, 2015 | confession, Lent, psalm
Out of glass I carved a mirror and there I swore allegiance to all that I could determine within and through my own flesh & spirit. Out of wood I constructed a shelter and I anointed its doorway with the oil of my sweat vowing to protect me and mine against all...
Mar 15, 2015 | confession, Lent, nature, prayer, scripture
Turn away, O God, lest you see our follies and vanities, our violences and indifferences. Walk away from us apace, keep your distance, only then will your footsteps create a path for us to follow after you — a faint hint of bent grass through the field, a...
