Mar 21, 2016 | Lent, nature, prayer
The floor creaks and keeps me company, like friends lingering together long after the last drink, determined to tell all the tales and sing all the songs before calling it a night. Of course, the floorboards only chirp & groan in the early morning and at the end...
Mar 19, 2016 | Lent, nature, psalm
There is a river who calls: “Let us chart a course to God.” There is a rock who announces: “Let us stand on the foundation of God.” There is a tree who claps and sings: “Let us rejoice to know God’s love in all seasons.” And...
Mar 13, 2016 | images of God, Lent, nature, prayer
You show up unbidden, unsought like the weather like Orion across the winter’s skies, like daffodil greens in early spring pushing through the mud and suddenly I remember what I’d forgotten: that you are joy and beauty and love and life; that you are...
Feb 26, 2016 | grace, Lent, nature, prayer, resurrection
My God and my delight, my rock and my blessing: you who can grow a daffodil where a thorn has been planted, you who can dance with new life after death has decreed its sentence: help my spirit watch eagerly for your love though my mind expects your absence; tune my...
Feb 23, 2016 | Lent, music, nature, prayer
If I am but a drop of water cascading from a mountain and reflecting the rainbow of your beauty, I am delighted and deeply satisfied. If I am but a leaf that has served its time and has nothing left to do but drift & fall on the gentleness of your winds, I am glad...
Feb 22, 2016 | images of God, Lent, nature, prayer
Ah, LORD God: if you were a bed, I would crawl back to your warmth, never again to face the routine of a Monday morning; if you were coffee, I would immerse myself in your strong energy, never again to grow weary or sullen; if you were sunshine, I would take my whole...
