Mar 28, 2009 | Lent, prayer, Writing to God
“Praise in haiku, on Psalm 51″I trust in the dawnto say “God lets you restart.”Praise the Morning Star.Create in me a clean heart, O God.I trust the fresh airto feel the Spirit within.Praise the Holy Wind.Put a new and steadfast spirit within...
Mar 23, 2009 | Lent, prayer, Writing to God
Gideon felt dew on the fleece of wool.Noah saw the bow of color arched in the sky.Thomas touched the scars from the nails in Jesus’ side.We pray for signs.The psalmist observed the deer at the stream.Peter dreamed of animals, reptiles, birds lowered in a...
Mar 20, 2009 | Lent, prayer, Writing to God
“A Prayer While Waiting for the Kingdom of God”Give these bonesbreath to dance.Give your peoplea song to sing in exile.Give the mustard seedroots to grow.Give Hagar and Ishmaelan oasis to rest.Give those behind locked doorsa vision of hope.Give the...
Mar 17, 2009 | Lent, prayer, Writing to God
I pray with all of my senses, O Living God.I pray with my eyes smiling at the sight of a robin resting briefly on the branch outside my window.I pray with my fingers kneading the warm fibers of the knitted hat that I snuggle onto my daughter’s head before...
Mar 16, 2009 | Lent, prayer, Writing to God
“Ashes to Ashes Confession”I am worn down today,fatigued in every muscleI am not whole,not even halfway.It is brilliant to be human…oh but I strain against the ashesthe limits.Heal me, Jesus, with the scars of your own brokenness.Heal me…not to...
Mar 13, 2009 | Lent, prayer, Writing to God
I pray that you have a sense of humor, O God:How fickle I am on any given day!Saddened, thoughtful, worried in one minuteand relaxed, top-of-the-world in the next.How flighty we are as humans!Outpouring in generosity for one another,then intensely self-serving and...
