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...
Apr 24, 2011 | resurrection
Who can even begin to expressthe simplicity of the joy:There is Life!Thank God, there is Life!
Mar 29, 2011 | Lent, prayer, resurrection
Rush into my day, my lifeLike cool dawn air filling my lungs.Enliven me, inspire me to praise,Wake me from apathy today!In the hope of resurrection, I pray.
