Dec 22, 2015 | Advent, grace, prayer
Smile at me today, O LORD, and I will dance forever. Touch me gently like a mother brushing her child’s feverish forehead, and I will leap from my sickbed to serve you. Guide my feet over this treacherous way, and I will follow you beyond the horizon. Say that I...
Sep 20, 2015 | faith, grace, prayer
Be creative, O God our God, be resourcefully inventive we pray, for your children are wandering and weary, without a refuge or hiding place from their persecutors. With a deft hand sew a cloak of comfort and forge an armor of protection around those who need it most....
Sep 11, 2015 | confession, grace, psalm
Ironic it seems to me that the best times for stillness are dawn and dusk: the cusp times the briefest moments a blooming or a fading that catches your breath and holds it in grace And I like to think that I would be a better person if I could live always in that...
Mar 10, 2015 | blessing, grace, Lent, prayer
With an open heart to learn and to love may God bless me in these moments.
Apr 9, 2014 | grace, Lent, prayer, wholeness
Is there grace for me to be scattered? Is there even gift in it somewhere? I want to be gathered in, drawn close, secured and grounded, but instead I am scattered like pollen on the cool spring breeze. The stories you tell of scattered peoples decry unfaithfulness and...
Mar 6, 2014 | grace, Lent, prayer
“I gotcha covered,” You say, like a friend unexpectedly picking up the lunch check, except that I can’t exactly get the next one (how do you treat God to lunch or coffee and does anyone know God’s favorite restaurant?); so I smile and say...
