Sep 11, 2015 | confession, grace, psalm
Ironic it seems to me that the best times for stillness are dawn and dusk: the cusp times the briefest moments a blooming or a fading that catches your breath and holds it in grace And I like to think that I would be a better person if I could live always in that...
Aug 14, 2015 | communion, psalm
This breath. This conversation. This rushed to-do list. These seconds dashing, dragging. This long waiting season. This focus. This distraction. That one too. This exhaustion. This very word. And this — you. This fleeting night with its fitful rest. This hour....
Jul 24, 2015 | lament, psalm
I tell you: there is no God for this world will march to its own dying end without care or comfort, and most of all, without repentance for its sins. If there were a God we would not be allowed to live without one — so callously, so brazenly. Otherwise who...
Jul 17, 2015 | blessing, justice, psalm
When you are weary, may the LORD show you a well. When you are embattled, may the name of the LORD be your guard. When you are lost and scared, may God send you a kind companion. When you are found, may you return the favor. When all hell breaks loose, may heaven rush...
Jul 13, 2015 | images of God, nature, psalm
the fullest assurance the deepest fear: that there is Something greater a trembling: i am not all a relief: i am not all there is Something greater every moment, every season with vast power It confronts me relentlessly pounding graciously unceasing though I refuse to...
Jul 10, 2015 | discipleship, faith, psalm
Let me hear what God the LORD will speak (Psalm 85:8a) and let me not be afraid of the silence of the unspoken of waiting while time passes eternal seconds without a single word I shall not pray I shall not fill the space with my own words, thoughts, run-ons,...
