Apr 2, 2014 | healing, Lent, mental health, prayer, vocation, wholeness
Not the life of ghosts, O my God, but the life of being do I wholly seek. To live not in apparition or fleeting vision but in flesh and in tangible connection. Let dry bones crumble to dust; do not waste time rebuilding muscle but start fresh! Start fresh in me, I...
Sep 18, 2012 | faith, scripture, sermon, wholeness
Have you had the experience of looking into a mirror, checking yourself over, walking away … and then returning to the mirror, because you don’t remember checking your hair or necktie? Perhaps you’ve had the experience of checking yourself in the...
Aug 29, 2012 | peace, prayer, wholeness
Because your world, O God, is bigger than mine, I will remember to breathe and open my eyes. Because discovery is delicious to the soul, O God, I will remember to breathe and be inquisitive. Because humanity is both brilliant and destructive —and because we both know...
Jul 11, 2012 | wholeness, writing
“What is common to all of us is the spiritual block: the experience of spiritual stiffness, the soul’s standstill in the midst of life’s unfolding, that place where the air is stale except perhaps for a recurring mirage. The reasons for finding...
Jun 18, 2012 | music, peace, psalm, wholeness
Come, o my soul:be struck against the Spiritso that your rigidity flexesand you quiver in resonance– mind, body and spirit –with the perfect pitchof love in concertwith life.
Mar 15, 2012 | grace, Lent, wholeness
Pick the scabPress the bruiseGawk at the newsStare at the bronze serpentReplay the scenes of our mistakesHow long will we remain fascinated by our own woundedness,as if our ability to trip and bleed, our inclination to war and rage,are new discoveries that lend...
