Sep 13, 2013 | grace, images of God
MIRROR MIRROR DISPLEASED BELOVED IMPERFECT TRANSFORMING LESS THAN WHOLE ASHAMED DELIGHTED IN HIDDEN RADIANT For loving us as we are, for transforming us to become more fully ourselves in your image, we give thanks to you, O Christ our...
Mar 16, 2013 | grace, hope, Lent, prayer
How would I make it through the night if not for your grace?
Oct 28, 2012 | grace, lament, prayer
*sigh* Perfect Holiness, Brilliant Light, Demanding Divine: I hate failing. I hate doing less than what you have called me to do. I hate doing less than what I am capable of doing. I concede: this is my issue, not yours … but grace is your issue, and I need the...
Sep 27, 2012 | church, grace, ministry, sermon
I want to be great. I want to be great at everything I do, and I give myself a hard time for not being brilliantly excellent 100% of the time — as a pastor, a preacher, a mother, a writer. I long to be stellar … and not just to be stellar, but to be known...
Mar 15, 2012 | grace, Lent, wholeness
Pick the scabPress the bruiseGawk at the newsStare at the bronze serpentReplay the scenes of our mistakesHow long will we remain fascinated by our own woundedness,as if our ability to trip and bleed, our inclination to war and rage,are new discoveries that lend...
Mar 10, 2012 | grace, Lent, prayer, quotation
“Why are we so afraid to be human, depending on legalism and moralism and dogmatism instead? Jesus came to us as a truly human being, to show us how to be human, and we were so afraid of this humanness that we crucified it, thinking it could be killed. And today...
