Apr 5, 2017 | lament, Lent, news, peace
From 30,000 feet in the air, you do not look like an image of God. You barely look like the landscape, and the landscape is just a background to the video game of drone warfare. From 30,000 feet in the air, your tears are only a poster image to convict my prayers....
Mar 27, 2017 | lament, Lent, prayer
I struggle for You it seems impossible — or is it terribly predictable — that You are not here time is without purpose without You reach across the depths, God, call me Yours again call me beloved again call again on Psalm...
Dec 30, 2016 | Christmas, lament, prayer
I pray at your feet, Child of Aleppo, seeking mercy for my ignorance and unyielding heart. I pray at your feet, Child of Eritrea, seeking forgiveness for the violence of global capitalism. I pray at your feet, Child of Bethlehem, seeking pardon and consolation through...
Dec 6, 2016 | Advent, lament, prayer, theodicy
Still I wait. Still I listen. Still there is only disappointment. We have waited. We have hoped. Perhaps now at long last God will answer the generations who have cried. Perhaps. But here — here is a shoulder for comfort until God comes. Unless God doesn’t...
Dec 3, 2016 | Advent, lament, prayer
Not too long since last we spoke Not too long since last we sat together And still I feel a chasm between us as though Our spirits never connected, as though A word never passed between us As though we are estranged. How long, O God, Until our repartee Is not so scant...
Nov 18, 2016 | discipleship, images of God, Jesus, lament, prayer
I wondered if you would come. I wondered if you would just sidle up quietly unexpectedly and sit by my side to watch the river. Of course if you decided to take time with me I would wonder immediately how long you might stay because no one stays. We go, we leave, we...
