Mar 8, 2019 | images of God, Lent, prayer
Listen to the roar of your people’s prayers, O Holy Lamb, as our spirits growl with hunger for your healing. Bend your woolly ear in sympathy as these great egos of dust mew for comfort. We ask: do not mind our snarls or teeth, for in deep pain and distress we...
Mar 6, 2019 | Lent, prayer
o my soul, do not keep quiet your deep confession cry aloud your daily failure to love the life of your neighbor beat your breast before the throne that you have tried to be god toll your heart’s bells until they awaken...
Apr 1, 2018 | Easter, Lent, prayer
Of first importance: Life, hallelujah! Life beyond understanding, life renewed despite death, life growing and changing, life outside of time & flesh, life created in blessing — hallelujah! Of first importance: Grace, hallelujah! Grace unhindered by guilt,...
Mar 31, 2018 | Lent, prayer
Let me wrap, and wrap, and wrap this pain. Let me bind it tightly to stop the bleeding that is no longer. Let me anoint this agony with frankincense and myrrh. Let me wash the grit from the wounds so that suffering does not soil the interment, the goodbye, the letting...
Mar 30, 2018 | Lent, prayer, racism
What evil has been done? came the question, but they were too enraged. His innocence was not worth more than their satisfaction, their safety, their righteousness. He must be guilty, because they must be good. Arrest him, they shouted. Let him be a lesson, they said,...
Mar 29, 2018 | Jesus, Lent, prayer
We could make it work, you know. This drive of yours to persist all the way to death wouldn’t have to have the final word. Remember how often you talked about love? Remember how hard you laughed — with friends, with lepers, with children? Couldn’t...
