May 1, 2015 | images of God, love, poem, scripture
Love is from God but God is a flirt who kisses us in the sunshine then abandons us at midnight to dance with the moon while we wrestle with our nightmares. Love is from God but God is a rebel who rejects our easy status quo then challenges us to discomfort and warns...
Mar 30, 2015 | faith, Lent, mystery, poem
1 – 1 = 1 To lose the certainty of faith in order to gain it again: what math is this? 2 – 2 = 3 To lose impartiality in love just to find foolish Love; it doesn’t add up. To lose even the respectability of salvation so that the sheer chaos of...
Mar 26, 2015 | healing, images of God, Lent, music, poem
My heart skips — 33 — not the wild leap to express joy but the weary limp to avoid a pain the wince — 33 — the accommodation of a long-standing scar Like scratched vinyl and a track that misses its beat so — 33 — familiar that I...
Mar 25, 2015 | confession, images of God, Lent, poem
The worst of all sins: the rejection of the Parent by the children. An intense contraction: the desire to be born without sharing credit, the will to become the pregnant creator all by ourselves. We came into being through You but chose not to know You. on John...
Mar 18, 2015 | Lent, poem, quotation
All the pretty little horses: holy to the LORD! The dapples and grays, the pintos and bays: holy to the LORD! The cat and the fiddle, the cow and the moon: holy to the LORD! The dog full of laughter, the dish and the spoon: holy to the LORD! Also the black sheep with...
Mar 6, 2015 | death, hope, justice, Lent, news, poem
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13) I no longer want to forestall hope to locate it in God’s future so clearly beyond my reach, beyond this life It’s time for hope now, in the land of the living that...
