Oct 26, 2019 | faith, nature
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with richness. The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy. – Psalm 65:11-12 (NRSV) The house where I grew up is purported to have been a speakeasy during...
Oct 6, 2019 | faith, prayer
God of our ancestors, the song we inherited has been starved in this famine of injustice; our tongues have dried from crying in this desert of hopelessness. Increase our faith! God of all creation, the grass will wither and we along with it, no matter our fretting;...
Aug 11, 2019 | confession, discipleship, faith, prayer
They died in faith without having received God’s promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. (Hebrews 11:13) What do we ask of you, O God, but faithfulness in presence and mercy from devouring powers? What do you ask of us, O God, but integrity in...
Jul 22, 2019 | discipleship, faith
Gimel Be good to your servant while I live, that I may obey your word. Daleth I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word. – Psalm 119:17, 25 (NIV) Through my earbuds plays the wisdom of Dua Lipa’s “New Rules” about setting boundaries...
Jun 2, 2019 | church, faith, prayer
What the hell do any of us know, O Eternal Mystery? While we worship constancy and might, mountains melt and remold like wax. While we sing hymns in echoing caverns, the Spirit waits upon those in prison. While we pray to love our enemies, the Church itself nurtures...
Dec 2, 2018 | Advent, faith, prayer
The day will surely come. Steadfast God, hold us in the meantime that we might not fear the long night. The time will surely arrive. Faithful God, give us signs while we wait until every speck of star and dust is a revelation. The promise will surely be fulfilled....
