May 6, 2016 | images of God, Jesus, prayer
Tree of Life, I cling to you like a vine, wrapped up in you and lifted up by you toward the Sweet Sun that nourishes me. Spring Silverbell, I study your beauty to learn its resistance to plague and plight, to ring with joy in shadowed undergrowth. Hidden Root, I...
Mar 17, 2016 | images of God, joy, Lent, peace, psalm, Spirit
There’s my Peace: rising with the sun and kissing my face on the breeze. There’s my Peace: laughing in conversation and warming hands with mugs of hot tea. There’s my Peace: standing in determined solidarity and raising her fist against the pressures...
Mar 16, 2016 | images of God, Lent, prayer
my spirit measures: one sunrise for each day one foot in front of the other one load of laundry at a time one breath in, too shallow one sigh out, too weary one bill, then the next one hot cup of tea… it seems i can barely manage these ones and twos and threes...
Mar 15, 2016 | images of God, Lent, prayer
I love you, Most High — not just because you are beautiful in the spring mist, not just because you find me when I have collapsed, not just because you provoke my dreams — but because you are you, intimately part of and wholly separate from all of this,...
Mar 13, 2016 | images of God, Lent, nature, prayer
You show up unbidden, unsought like the weather like Orion across the winter’s skies, like daffodil greens in early spring pushing through the mud and suddenly I remember what I’d forgotten: that you are joy and beauty and love and life; that you are...
Mar 7, 2016 | images of God, joy, Lent, psalm
I am enveloped by your sweetness as when a fog cloaks my skin and fills my lungs with its cool silence; I am a pebble lost in the fog, a chip of stonework fallen and forgotten, but for your keen eye and ingenuity; I am a tile reimagined and reused for the beauty of...
