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...
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...
