Dec 16, 2013 | Christmas, church, Easter, Monday Muse
Today’s “Monday Muse” may be less a muse that inspires worship creativity and more a muse that encourages thoughtfulness and conversation; this reflection is cross-posted on The Huffington Post. For the first time in more than a decade, I am not...
Apr 7, 2013 | Easter, ministry, sermon, vocation
So Easter Sunday comes and goes. We delight for a reason to wear our best spring outfits and share a good meal. We sing our Easter hymns triumphantly. We celebrate the good news of an empty tomb, the satisfying victory of life over death. Then we enter the season of...
Mar 31, 2013 | comfort, Easter, Lent, psalm
Be amazed, o my soul, to have witnessed Life today. Whisper the words of hope that the winds shared after Death’s visit. Take now your weariness and lean into the silent hymn of a rolled-away stone: “I am open again! No more will Death echo here.”...
May 11, 2010 | Easter, lament, prayer
From one parent to another, O Holy Mother-Father, I reach out for the strength to bear a brokenhearted child’s tears without solutions without heart splints without easy fixes just tissues. If ever I needed you to be near, it is now, but not for me. Bear near to...
Apr 12, 2009 | Easter, prayer
And so Lent comes to its end, Easter marks the completion, and I pray, o most holy God, for what is, in fact, a beginning: life new and renewing the impossible to be believed joy that cannot be quenched and always, everywhere I look every place I turn, your endless...
