Feb 22, 2012 | grace, Lent, prayer
One of us has a god-complex, O God.One of us has an anxious needto know and to keep life in order.One of us has a distorted view of sufficiencyand a daily resistance to wounded living.One of us has a drive to be and do more, anda combative approach to surrender and...
Jun 18, 2011 | grace, music, psalm
I will dance until I am exhausted,twirling in circles with my arms wideto take it all in, spinning as though the busyness will help meto build up the courage to affirm that it is all good –that it is all part of life,that all that is life is good:the...
Jun 14, 2011 | grace, nature
New mercy every morningstill surprises mewith its freshness.I am delightedand moved to tears:the birds have written a new hymn,the night’s storms have yieldedto wisps of cloud art,the cool air bathes my skinand awakens my senses.Ah, Mercy! You give me pauseas...
Mar 9, 2011 | grace, Lent, prayer
Timeless God, You without beginning or end:Do you know how hard it is to begin?Especially such a beginning as Ash Wednesday,this odd day of mortality and palm dust, thiscelebration (of a sort) with pungent remnantsof the previous year’s Alleluiasmixed with oil...
Mar 6, 2011 | grace, quotation
We seldom notice how each day is a holy placeWhere the eucharist of the ordinary happens,Transforming our broken fragmentsInto an eternal continuity that keeps us.Somewhere in us a dignity presidesThat is more gracious than the smallnessThat fuels us with fear and...
Feb 9, 2011 | grace, prayer
. . . and thenevery now and againLife reminds methat I have been worshipingthat elusive godnamed Control(a false idol, in fact,yet I repeatedly make my altar to it)so Life holds up a mirrorto my foolishnessand God tumbles me in a waveto disorientand reorientmy gods,...
