Apr 15, 2018 | love, prayer
What love you have for us, O Merciful One: the sparrow chirrups faithfully and the daffodil sprouts through snow, joy greets us daily with the sunrise and grace finds us every night. What love you have for us, O Forgiving One: that new visions reveal your relentless...
Aug 13, 2017 | justice, love, music, news, racism
O Love Supreme, our foundation and our irritation, our comfort and our chastisement: The earth quakes with the marching of racism (in every generation, new boots carry the same hatred) but we who know Love Supreme will not be shaken. The air blisters and scorches with...
Mar 26, 2017 | Lent, love, nature
Happy are those who meditate on love. love multiplying in raindrops love growing in spring love singing in harmony love wrestling through mystery love waiting in silence love racing over distance love draping with radiance Happy are those who meditate on love. (Psalm...
Mar 19, 2017 | Lent, love, prayer
I saw you trying to catch my eye, trying to hold my gaze long enough for the shields to drop, but you were too late — or perhaps too early — and I could not meet you honestly. I chased after you, to be sure, and I called your name, but I kept my distance...
Mar 15, 2017 | confession, grace, Lent, love, prayer, vocation
What example shall I be, O LORD, for the blessing of your name? If an example of grace, I might be tempted to idolize and (try to) enact a perfect persona. If an example of faith, I might fold doubt beneath my coat or tuck it into my pockets like cold hands in winter,...
