Dec 13, 2013 | Advent, courage, prayer
4am is the hour of my disquiet. Wide awake in that suspended time, dawn is a dream – too far away, too long in coming for me to escape the heavy blanket of shadows. I should wait patiently … patiently … but I am tempted to escape into sleep. Let dawn...
Nov 24, 2013 | courage, hope, prayer
More than all things visible or invisible, beyond pressures and powers and politics, before all that has been and long after all that will be, you alone are God. Look favorably upon us, O LORD, as we come to you. Remember your reputation of goodness as we lift up the...
Jun 28, 2013 | courage, faith, justice, scripture
“They delight to draw near to God, but they serve their own interests when they worship, while others suffer.” (adapted from Isaiah 58:2-3) Did you think you could rest? Did you believe that now now you could lay it down pause in peace celebrate finish...
Mar 13, 2013 | comfort, courage, Lent, prayer
Stay with me. Keep watch over me. Do not falter beneath me. Whisper within me. Reach beyond me. Speak to me. See through me. Hold on beside me. Stay with me.
Feb 18, 2013 | courage, Lent, prayer
“Take me outside of myself,” I dare to pray . . . and immediately think that I don’t know what I’m asking. What if God takes me seriously? So I backpedal and nuance: “Open my eyes to a broader perspective, and keep me on my toes” ....
Feb 16, 2013 | courage, hope, images of God, Jesus, Lent, prayer
O Jesus, Brooding Hen, I long for the naiveté of a chick who sees the nest as its whole world and the hen’s wing as a sure defense against the fox. But I have imagined the threatening fox into mythical proportions that even a nervy hen cannot restrain. How I...
