May 28, 2021 | faith, mystery
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Our God is in the heavens; God does whatever God pleases. … The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth has been given to human beings. – Psalm 115:2-3 & 16 (NRSV) Parenting college students is an...
Mar 12, 2021 | discipleship, images of God, Jesus, Lent, mystery, prayer, Spirit
To make my way to the Source, I pray, and to understand how it carves through the rock and reshapes the earth along its holy path; I pray to meet the One who loves the path — its movement more than its destination — and to learn the patience of unknown...
Feb 23, 2021 | lament, mental health, mystery, psalm, theodicy
Tell me, stars, how often God has shown up for you in your cold existence. Over the millennia, how often has God been your renewal, your hope, your reason for being — or have you died already, unnoticed, your light unrequited? Tell me, tears, if you ever grow...
Apr 6, 2017 | Lent, mystery, prayer
Being from void. Breath from stillness. Care from chaos. Song from silence. Pattern from mystery. Nourishment from nothing. Meaning from turbulence. Life from death. Just think: what might you do with me, Eternal Creator? on Genesis...
Jan 27, 2017 | communion, discipleship, mystery, worship
Come, sister: sit with me to watch the wonder of God dazzling within us like sparklers against the night sky. Come, brother: tend the fire with me into the wee hours as we spin tales of God’s mystery and chide one another to courage. Come, friend: the wait will...
Dec 7, 2016 | Advent, images of God, mystery, nature, prayer, vocation
No amount of straining or swimming, of longing or praying can free me from the currents of life that I think myself so adept in navigating. For the stream runs on without a care and the storms come (inevitably, invariably) to show off their lack of care and deference....
