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...
Mar 24, 2015 | confession, justice, Lent, prayer, scripture
I call bull*. Tell me, Jesus, what good is the kingdom of God to those who are barely scraping by, living paycheck-to-paycheck (or not even!) without a moment of relief to separate the hours of haunting stress? What good is a heavenly feast to someone who’s not...
Mar 19, 2015 | Lent, scripture, thanksgiving, women
In thanksgiving for ancestors and kin, for mothers and sisters across generations, for those who help to birth and those who accompany the walk and those who tell the tales, I call the names: Grace Susan Mildred Lydia Lucy Jacqueline Eleanor Tamar Diane Cheni Ruth...
Mar 15, 2015 | confession, Lent, nature, prayer, scripture
Turn away, O God, lest you see our follies and vanities, our violences and indifferences. Walk away from us apace, keep your distance, only then will your footsteps create a path for us to follow after you — a faint hint of bent grass through the field, a...
Mar 9, 2015 | Lent, nature, psalm, scripture
I beg you, by the gazelles and the wild does, loose your heavy cloak of winter and brave the first delicate steps that will send you bounding over snow drifts and dancing beneath dull gray skies. I urge you, by the red-tailed hawk and the house wren, be...
Mar 4, 2015 | lament, Lent, scripture
Out of sight. Beyond reach. I would holler and throw a fit if I thought it would make you hear but who can force your listening or command your attention? Who can come before you with any success? Let me instead appeal to the tide, let my prayer get lost in wave after...
