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...
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 8, 2011 | prayer-writing, Spirit
Hello, Spirit. I’ve missed you!It’s been too long since we sat down together,just to be and to share and to renew one another.We’ve played phone tag over the weeks, butit’s not a substitute for face-to-face time like this.Do you have a moment...
Jun 10, 2011 | baptism, lament, prayer-writing
I am overwhelmed — O my God –eyes wide open, holding my breathwatching the flood waters churn over & around mewaiting, desperately hoping, for the waters to recedeAnd as I wait in the drowning, I wonder if this is the meaning of baptism:to experience...
