Jul 31, 2015 | communion, justice, peace, scripture
ONE LOVE one body one spirit one hope ONE LOVE one sacred one faith one rhythm ONE LOVE your heartbeat my heartbeat our heartache ONE LOVE one breath one death one life ONE LOVE one song one wail one cause ONE LOVE your injury my confession our brokenness ONE LOVE one...
Jun 5, 2015 | confession, prayer, scripture
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? I mark my own iniquities; like a wrathful deity, I catalogue them and the weight of it brings me to my knees. Take notice please, O God, of the trouble I’m saving you. Let your judgment pass me by...
May 7, 2015 | Bible, scripture
If love favored her, life betrayed her. Hardly a fair trade and if she had been given a choice who’s to say she wouldn’t have preferred life? What do we remember: we remember her weeping, not her loving, not her living; we remember the wail of her death....
May 6, 2015 | Bible, poem, scripture, stories
Do not look in her eyes where dreams have died. Instead by her hips be gladly distracted; watch her hands — busy tending life. Where dreams have died, instead she has planted dogged resolve. Watch her hands — busy tending life in love’s...
May 5, 2015 | Bible, scripture, stories
The kingdom of heaven is like a man whose hip is thrown out of joint so that he has to stop running. It’s hard to say when exactly Jacob began running. It seemed in his own mind that he had always been ducking & dodging, always evading anyone who got too...
May 1, 2015 | images of God, love, poem, scripture
Love is from God but God is a flirt who kisses us in the sunshine then abandons us at midnight to dance with the moon while we wrestle with our nightmares. Love is from God but God is a rebel who rejects our easy status quo then challenges us to discomfort and warns...
