Apr 25, 2014 | Easter, hope, joy, poem, resurrection
Tell me a story of butterflies and daffodils of thin places and reassuring angels. Tell me a story of miracles and love of strolling through gardens with lions and lambs. Tell me a story of resurrection dawning of rains refreshing, of tombs bursting with life. Tell me...
Mar 3, 2014 | Easter, Monday Muse, resurrection, worship
Friends and colleagues, a brief note before you read today’s Monday Muse: During the season of Lent, I write prayers daily as a spiritual discipline and I post them here on my blog. The Monday Muse feature will take a Lenten hiatus while I post daily prayers. If...
Jan 4, 2013 | death, resurrection, stories
In the year after your death, there were flowers and a new baby. Perhaps the flowers were nothing unusual, but still it was a surprise to see them — stars of purple and cobalt shining with hope through the gray fog of springtime in Maine. The new baby was hope,...
Apr 8, 2012 | faith, joy, prayer, resurrection
My heart laughs to say it:Christ is risen!My soul sighs to hear it:Christ is risen!My toes wiggle with the joy of it:Christ is risen!O my God! What a glad morning this is!Now at last, Death is finished!Now at last, the mourners can rejoice!Now at last, the stones...
Mar 5, 2012 | healing, lament, Lent, resurrection
Take these tears, O my God;I cannot hold them anymore.Catch them please. Use themto pour out a river that I can followupstream to the well of your own tearsin which pain’s water is turned to life’s wine.Teach me solace and perspective herein the sacred...
May 1, 2011 | resurrection, scripture, sermon
I love that on this first Sunday after Easter — after all of the fanfare and the music and the beauty and the hope and the incredible “Wow!” of resurrection — one week later the lectionary gives us the story of Thomas, gives us the space of a...
