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....
Dec 31, 2015 | comfort, discipleship, images of God, mystery, prayer
Would that I could escape this second, stretch out from the bubble that is this hour, and touch the hem of your robe there where you wade on the horizon, there where you watch the world go by out-of-sequence, there where you midwife death into birth and mourning into...
Oct 16, 2015 | mystery, nature, psalm
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Do you know the way to the dwelling of light, to the home of darkness? Can you leap through the heavens to loose Orion or command the Pleiades? Can you soar...
May 15, 2015 | mystery, nature, prayer
Let me stretch out this bit of prayer on the pavement in the spring rain: I do not know the time for the seed to break open and wend its way through the soil, for the wound to cease throbbing and begin the slow work of healing, for love to finally confound our...
