Mar 22, 2010 | joy, Lent, prayer, Spirit
You have saturated this daywith the beauty of your stillness,O Whispering Spirit,if I but stop to lookif I but stop to sit and breathe.Oh! how your sweet perfume is in the rain!How your dress sways with the willow’s green branches!There is a vibrance about you,O...
Dec 13, 2009 | Advent, joy, prayer
Advent: the season of preparation(and anxious detail and obligation),which leads me to pray: I need release.I need freedom and unburdening,like eagle’s wings.O God,as you skip across the heavenson your way towardbirth,lighten my slow stepsand strip the heavy...
May 9, 2009 | joy, nature
The honeysuckle flowers are blooming and I am reminded (again) that life’s surprising joys, its cycles of hibernation and renewal, are not dependent on my successes or failures.
