Dec 10, 2017 | Advent, healing, justice, prayer
You are the beginning of all life, O God, and the foundation of all hope. You are the joy from which springs peace and the peace from which blooms love. We turn our hearts toward you: Be kind to these weary bones, we pray. This life withers like grass and our spirits...
Dec 9, 2017 | Advent, peace, prayer
Dear Jesus, the wolf has no interest in resting quietly alongside the lamb — only raping her. The leopard is restless to devour the kid for the sake of a profit. Who will reprimand the lion’s violent ways, who will declaw its instincts and teach it to...
Dec 8, 2017 | Advent, prayer
I pine for You with every prayer spoken, every candle lit, every hymn intoned, every silence observed. My heart would burst in the waiting if I did not know so certainly that you would not fail to arrive. How could you fail — You who are eternally faithful...
Dec 6, 2017 | Advent, nature, prayer
O God my God, tune my heart to follow You like the day follows the long peace of night, like the sun follows its course across the sky, like the cloud follows the inspiration of the wind, like the maple follows winter’s invitation to hibernate, like the warbler...
Dec 5, 2017 | Advent, prayer
Somewhere in the chaos, let me know Peace like the eye of a storm: everything swallowed up in a vacuum that leaves nothing but awe. Somewhere in the shouting, let me know Peace like an ocean: pounding and roaring, an utter lack of forgiveness for any grain that does...
