Feb 24, 2019 | images of God, prayer
Blessed be the Wind: racing, eroding, unsettling, compelling, and blessed are we that the Wind does not leave us alone. Blessed be the Flesh: grieving, straining, delighting, satisfying, and blessed are we that the Flesh reveals the fullness of life. Blessed be the...
Feb 11, 2019 | images of God, love
How beautiful you are, my love, how very beautiful! Your hair is like goats along the hills; your teeth are like shorn ewes that have been washed; your lips are like a crimson thread—so lovely; your cheeks are like pomegranate halves. (Song of Songs 4:1-3) Sure, maybe...
Feb 10, 2019 | images of God, prayer
With two they covered their faces; Interrogate the ways we watch the world, O Holy Magnificence, for too often we hide the eyes of our hearts from the blaze of your love as it is at work on earth as in heaven; too often we watch with cynicism, judgment, and...
Dec 30, 2018 | images of God, prayer
Holy and Beloved, our Wisdom and our Peace, we add our praise to the song of heaven and earth: You are good and glorious! Holy and Beloved, our Wisdom and our Peace, we seek after you in word and deed, in breath and fellowship. You are both siren and satisfaction!...
Dec 25, 2017 | Christmas, images of God, prayer
In the fullness of time, a Flower blooms: not minding the plans of war or the harvest of grief, not measuring the seasons of power or the generations of wealth’s sin, but simply spreading its petals because time is full and fulfilled. A Flower has bloomed...
Dec 18, 2017 | Advent, images of God, prayer
…was a sound, a silence, a consonant, a vowel, a mumble, a sigh, a shout. In the beginning was an idea, a possibility, an urge and an urgency, a compulsion, a wonder, a love. In the beginning was the Word, the Creation, the Articulation, the Invitation, the...
