Mar 26, 2014 | joy, Lent, psalm
Joy! Joy! The evergreens stand tall to proclaim it: Joy! Joy! The sun rises in announcement: Joy! Joy! The ocean dances to its rhythm: Joy! Joy! The infant giggles to delight in it: Joy! Joy! I listen past my fears to the chorus: Joy! Joy! Let my heart be...
Apr 29, 2013 | joy, scripture, sermon
The Revelation to John is a book that provokes us with wild, vivid imagery; it twists and disorients us, so we are prompted to view the world and the Divine outside of the boxes we might otherwise put them in. According to John’s revelation (21:1-6): When at...
Mar 11, 2013 | images of God, joy, Lent, poem
The highways extend & twist like long sinuous ribbons flaring wide from the sash around the Holy One’s waist; And She twirls and She spins to tease us out of our wandering, catching our hands, tangling our pathways, binding us to Herself and braiding us to...
Mar 9, 2013 | faith, joy, Lent, psalm
Be gracious to me, O God, in this flesh of existence, in this exhilarating dust of life! Let my soul announce: “I stand to bless the LORD!” Be gracious to me, O God, in my daily striving and thriving, in my soaring and in my falling. Let my soul sing:...
Mar 1, 2013 | joy, Lent, love, prayer
Who is like my Beloved? Who else can tease my lips into a smile with just a glimmer of sunlight, a sudden wisp of gentle breeze, a hint of the spring’s early blooms? Who else can love me into courage by regaling me with stories of life? Who else can invite me to...
Dec 19, 2012 | Advent, joy, prayer, quotation
I cannot dance, O Lord, Unless You lead me. If You wish me to leap joyfully, Let me see You dance and sing — Then I will leap into Love — And from Love into Knowledge, And from Knowledge into the Harvest, That sweetest Fruit beyond human sense....
