Nov 6, 2015 | hope, psalm
Let the storms rumble! Let the rocks quake and roll! What can move me like my God? Let the nights stretch on! Let the traffic come to a standstill! Who knows my time so intimately as God? Let joy be fleeting! Let romance bloom and fade! No whim of fancy delights my...
Oct 23, 2015 | Advent, hope, joy, love, peace, poem
someday there will be hope and so this day i will spin its fairy tale without snark or cynicism with only imagination and trust in what God can do someday there will be peace and so this day i will welcome a stranger i will let my heart break to read the news i...
Jun 19, 2015 | hope, love, news
Let me look at you, hold your face in my hands. There you are — the light of God is in your eyes, the beauty of the Word Made Flesh is in your flesh. What a gift you are and what a grace to let me love you — just the brokenness of my heart and of yours...
May 29, 2015 | comfort, hope, prayer
Just the hem, O my God, just the hem. Hide your face, turn your back even, but let the hem of your robe linger as a comfort through the long night. Send your visions to one more gifted; let another more foolish in faithfulness glimpse the wonder of your wisdom; for...
Mar 6, 2015 | death, hope, justice, Lent, news, poem
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13) I no longer want to forestall hope to locate it in God’s future so clearly beyond my reach, beyond this life It’s time for hope now, in the land of the living that...
Feb 21, 2015 | hope, joy, Lent, prayer
Just one step toward the water and another toward an impossibility Two steps then a sidestep of hesitation and now we’re dancing: approaching and turning trusting and waiting dreaming and fearing slow-quick-quick a rumba with God between a rock and a hard place...
