Jul 22, 2011 | mystery, peace, prayer-writing, scripture
I wonder if you ever struggle for us, Holy Mystery, the way we struggle for you. Are we ever beyond comprehension to you, in our anxious counting of dollars or our oblique denial of interdependence? Do you wonder over us, with our frantic scurrying for daily life? I...
Jul 19, 2011 | hope, nature, peace, psalm
Praise is due to you, O God of all life, and to you we commit ourselves because you have been faithful in loving us. You are there when injustice overwhelms us, and you forgive us when we are part of the injustice. Happy are those who stay close to you, who walk in...
Jun 24, 2011 | peace, prayer
Holy Silence,Unspeaking God,you dare meto be stillto be silentto be withoutto be in spaceand to trust thatyou are the Space.So I’m going to sit for a while, and wait, andbe in Silence and Space — hopefully with you.
Apr 13, 2011 | Lent, peace, prayer
God of mathematics and mystery,Creator of the amoeba and the great blue whale,Painter of the sweeping clouds at sunset and of the delicate violet,thank you for giving us macro and micro,for meeting us in the second and in the season.Thank you for the graceof a...
Mar 23, 2011 | Lent, peace, prayer, theodicy
Today I wonder whether you can, in fact, make it all better, God. Because if you can … but you don’t (some divine moral issue with intervention??) … then perhaps we should really just say that you can’t. Because you won’t.Or is it the...
Mar 19, 2011 | Lent, peace
Rest now, o weary soul;be still and remember God’s blessings.Peace now, o worried soul;lay it down and remember God’s grace.Rest now, o weary soul;wait, just wait, and remember God’s faithfulness.
