Oct 21, 2011 | nature, prayer-writing
Come: laugh, twirl, be silly with delightover the downward spiralof the maple’s helicopters.Rejoice in this!Be in this moment with Me!Come: stare, linger, even pull overto step out of your car and aweat the glimpses of red on a gliding hawk’s tail.Rejoice...
Oct 17, 2011 | images of God, poem, prayer-writing
It’s a long path,with bends out of sightand dense fog on most days,so I concentrate on my stepsand on knowing You within them.Today:a lightness,a slower pace,a reflection of the satisfied joythat makes the trees burst with color;and You:the unencumbered Air,the...
Sep 17, 2011 | nature, prayer-writing, wholeness
Perhaps the true beauty of the treesis their willingness to obey your seasons,to bloom & thrive for a time,to rest & sleep for a time.Meanwhile I scramble for time,believe that I can manipulate it,pretend that my body and spiritdo not need respite or...
Sep 3, 2011 | church, peace, prayer-writing
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.” (James 1:27) To care for orphans and widows in their distress… …or to blame the hungry and...
Aug 12, 2011 | nature, prayer-writing, psalm
The tall bay grasses, with their roots entwined around salt-water mussels and their leaves parted for the occasional white egret’s nest, silently mark their time by the ocean’s tides: watermarks of highs and lows, faded lines of flourishing and...
Aug 5, 2011 | faith, music, prayer-writing, Spirit
I breathe in search of you, praying for the Wind to stir the dry leaves of my spirit. I would settle for hearing them scratch against one another, any sign of Life in this otherwise dry & lifeless heat. Come, Wind, and dispel my stagnation, full of vain longings...
