Mar 18, 2016 | church, discipleship, Lent, peace, prayer
Creating & Advocating God, would that we (like you) could speak a word and it would come into being! Then we would say, “Love!” and suddenly all would be their brothers’ keepers. We would say, “Peace be with you!” and the wars between...
Mar 17, 2016 | images of God, joy, Lent, peace, psalm, Spirit
There’s my Peace: rising with the sun and kissing my face on the breeze. There’s my Peace: laughing in conversation and warming hands with mugs of hot tea. There’s my Peace: standing in determined solidarity and raising her fist against the pressures...
Dec 20, 2015 | Advent, peace, prayer
I am afraid, even all these years later; afraid of what was done, of what else could have been done, of what else still could be done. Afraid at two in the morning when no one knows but you. I know you know, and probably that should be enough to ease my fears, but it...
Dec 17, 2015 | Advent, images of God, peace, psalm
Come, O Dawn! Sweet and subtle, gently warming, come! Be the slow smile of sun that elicits laughter and delight from weary travelers. Be the hint of hope that we need to put one foot faithfully in front of the other along these long pathways of peace. Come, Dawn!...
Oct 23, 2015 | Advent, hope, joy, love, peace, poem
someday there will be hope and so this day i will spin its fairy tale without snark or cynicism with only imagination and trust in what God can do someday there will be peace and so this day i will welcome a stranger i will let my heart break to read the news i...
Jul 31, 2015 | communion, justice, peace, scripture
ONE LOVE one body one spirit one hope ONE LOVE one sacred one faith one rhythm ONE LOVE your heartbeat my heartbeat our heartache ONE LOVE one breath one death one life ONE LOVE one song one wail one cause ONE LOVE your injury my confession our brokenness ONE LOVE one...
