May 19, 2012 | peace, prayer, scripture
Trust is the tableon which I setthe scattered puzzle piecesthat elude my assembling,the tangled web of yarnwith its endless knots,the “to do” list yet undonealways growing longer. You alone can discernthe puzzle’s picture.You alone have the...
Apr 27, 2012 | Bible, lament, peace, prayer
I would do well to learn from those who have sought you in the night:Jacob, wide awake on that stone pillow;Nicodemus, restless with questions;Solomon, weighing wealth and wisdom;Pharaoh’s baker, his head full of nightmares;the weary Hebrews, following that...
Apr 2, 2012 | images of God, Lent, peace, prayer
Ah, Beautiful God, you are the stillness of the morning before the robins wake or the dew lifts, just as the sky is warming with the sun’s color; and I step into your sleepy quiet to breathe deeply and savor the holy harmony. Let the thoughts of my heart and the...
Mar 27, 2012 | faith, Lent, peace, prayer
And now let me rest.Let me have the graceto be finished –maybe not complete,perhaps not quite enough– but ended for today.Bless the setting sun andbless this dying day.Help me to let it bedone, to be as it was,because it wasyours.
Mar 13, 2012 | Lent, peace, prayer
My fanciful soul strains to soarlike a balloon drifting into the blue skybut my string is caught,snagged in the branches of the world:weighed down by the body,knotted with fatigue,twisted about by responsibilities(joyful and tedious alike),alternately lingering and...
Feb 23, 2012 | Lent, peace, prayer
You are right on time, O my God and my Peace, breaking through the clouds to catch my attention and cheer my troubled spirit. You are right on time, Perfectly Unexpected God, waking me up from sleepwalking, interrupting the course of carelessness — the autopilot...
