Sep 13, 2015 | prayer, thanksgiving
We love you, O LORD, for you hear our cries and our petitions, our psalms and our sorrows. You bend your ear to hear us, even when we neglect to listen in return. For that and for all we give you thanks. When we call out your name, you are faithful — full of...
Aug 31, 2015 | prayer, thanksgiving
Waking up, giving thanks for you. Waking up, letting life be as it is. Waking up, adding my prayers. Waking up, making peace with regret. Waking up, allowing for new grace. Waking up, accepting the work. Waking up, willing to wonder. Waking up, embracing the day....
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...
Feb 28, 2015 | Lent, nature, psalm, thanksgiving
Here a raven in all its arrogance Here a gull in its single-mindedness Here a scrappy sparrow full of chatter Each content in life and work (although to be fair, they know no different) And would they live differently if they did? Would the gull wish its voice more...
Dec 3, 2014 | Advent, prayer, thanksgiving
“I give thanks to my God always for you…” Too often (I confess to believing) there is not enough time to sit to be with you to talk to listen to let time pass unattended But increasingly I remember what I am missing: stillness receptiveness...
Nov 28, 2014 | lament, prayer, thanksgiving
in her eyes surely You saw too the love and grief commingled the tears mourning the past the weary smile loving the present it’s bittersweet this bit about giving thanks although we have long lists of blessings equally long are our lists of grievances not...
