Dec 10, 2015 | Advent, joy, prayer
Sing, daughter. Or whisper, if breath and courage fail. Hold on to God’s joy like a life preserver through disaster & storm. Hum a lullaby for surrendering to the Ground that holds the seas, to the Wild Imagination that spins distant galaxies. Tune your...
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...
Mar 8, 2015 | comfort, joy, Lent, mystery, prayer
A wisp of wind, a passing moment, a grace note: let me be glad just to have known it grateful for the warm breath on my cheek for the caring space between words for the music which cannot be held. At your invitation, O God, I will be still and savor this life that is...
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...
Dec 14, 2014 | Advent, joy, prayer
. I can’t. . . O God beyond time, by your grace: May joy not be linear or sequential. May tomorrow’s triumphant reunion find us today. May your still-coming kindom wrap around and inform our yesterday. May the hope of ancient stories undergird our future....
Apr 25, 2014 | Easter, hope, joy, poem, resurrection
Tell me a story of butterflies and daffodils of thin places and reassuring angels. Tell me a story of miracles and love of strolling through gardens with lions and lambs. Tell me a story of resurrection dawning of rains refreshing, of tombs bursting with life. Tell me...
