Mar 16, 2015 | images of God, lament, Lent, nature
I wait for you to be the strength of the Lion but you are busy saving your own hide from all who hunt the unconquerable. I watch patiently for your Harp to rise and soothe the world into peace but your lyrics sag with lament. I wonder if you wander like the Big Bear...
Mar 11, 2015 | lament, Lent, psalm
It’s all just crap complete dirt and crud encrusted on slush what’s left behind from a dreary winter forcing me to dodge jump over wade through yet another season of disaster and i just want to yell “this is not my mess” but who really cares to...
Mar 4, 2015 | lament, Lent, scripture
Out of sight. Beyond reach. I would holler and throw a fit if I thought it would make you hear but who can force your listening or command your attention? Who can come before you with any success? Let me instead appeal to the tide, let my prayer get lost in wave after...
Feb 25, 2015 | lament, Lent, news, psalm, racism
Cry, sister, cry through the long nights when the moon alone is a willing friend who will name the hard truth that God has left us alone to count the stars to count the days to count the lives 317 days too many every hashtag 1 too many 300 billion stars too many...
Feb 20, 2015 | lament, Lent, prayer
Remember, O God. Let not your ear be disconnected from your heart, your eye disassociated from your memory. Listen. Look. Remember. Ask yourself, Most Holy One — where have you witnessed pain and hopelessness before? Do your eyes remember seeing the backs bent...
Feb 19, 2015 | blessing, justice, lament, Lent, prayer
Shall it always be, O God, that one be given favor and the other be cast to wilderness? Must it be that one alone may feast while his brother scrambles for crumbs; that a sister dances and twirls with delight while her twin laments amidst ashes? What justice is it if...
