Mar 2, 2012 | Lent, psalm, wholeness
How good it is!How good it is to be in God’s day!How good it is to bask in the warmth of God’s love!How good it is to tastedaily mercies and sweet delights;to savor a moment of silencelike chocolate melting on the tongue;to laugh, to jest, to care in...
Dec 12, 2011 | Advent, peace, wholeness
breathingto find God not absentbut withinbreathingto appreciate God in silencedespite the noisebreathingto pulse with God’s peacein my corebreathingto savor God’s fullnessand mine
Sep 17, 2011 | nature, prayer-writing, wholeness
Perhaps the true beauty of the treesis their willingness to obey your seasons,to bloom & thrive for a time,to rest & sleep for a time.Meanwhile I scramble for time,believe that I can manipulate it,pretend that my body and spiritdo not need respite or...
Dec 11, 2010 | Advent, images of God, psalm, wholeness
Now praise the God of Wholenesswho meets you in broken places!Lift your spirit and your hands in sweet gratitudeto the God of Acceptance and Patiencewho sees holy beauty just as you are, andgently kneads your hardness & stubbornness.Be happy, and keep your...
Nov 29, 2010 | Advent, grace, prayer, wholeness
I pray for the courageto let this day bewhat it isand what it isn’t;to let it hold what it can,and not cram it impossiblywith any more;because it already is,and it is full of God!I pray for the graceto let myself bewhat I amand what I’m not;to hold what I...
Oct 13, 2010 | grace, nature, prayer, wholeness
For the scars,for the healed storiesand the still-open wounds,I pray beauty in wholenessand the peace of perspective.Like the sycamore’s scarsall gray and white and peelingsometimes down to the bare woodsignaling growth (not disease or dis-ease),wounds of new...
