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 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 8, 2016 | confession, Lent, prayer
I tell myself, I am satisfied, and my heart immediately betrays my lie: Dear God, I would like … and … and … and … Again I try to pray, I am satisfied, O God, but my soul is too restless for this to be true: Dear God, I want to do … and...
Feb 28, 2016 | confession, images of God, lament, Lent, prayer
How is it within you, O God, to imagine land flowing with milk and honey, bright rivers spilling over with satisfying life to make harvests abundant and people glad to no longer know thirst? How is it, O God, that your holy imagination and your living heart can...
Feb 25, 2016 | confession, Lent, prayer
Take my thoughts, O God, my thoughts and my dreams too — I have no good use for them. They keep me up at night and wrestle with my spirit all day long. I don’t want to know these longings and these disappointments any more, not the worries or the fears...
Feb 24, 2016 | confession, Lent, news, prayer, racism
Too long, O LORD, too long! Too long have we covered our ears and hidden our eyes and turned our backs on the world’s hunger for a harvest rich with love & universal kinship. Too long have we preferred the slim pickings of “I got mine,” the weeds...
