Apr 3, 2014 | confession, courage, Lent, prayer
We cannot (I cannot) face this day without your help. There is too much suffering, too much violence, too much pain unanswered, too much chaos, too much, far too much like the earliest days of creation when all was disarray, tumult, and God had to create space and...
Jan 19, 2014 | courage, discipleship, images of God, prayer
Our praise and prayers, our hopes and heartaches are found in the shadow of your love, O God. We come to you to see who we are and to catch a vision of who we may become. It’s too easy to listen to news, to look in mirrors, and to resign ourselves to the belief...
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.
