Dec 8, 2016 | Advent, joy, prayer
You catch me up in your love and grace so much that I blush and giggle with the carefree delight that escapes my lips at your invitation. Life being the tumult that it is, I’m amazed how you infiltrate my spirit’s cynicism with your mischief. Never stop....
Dec 7, 2016 | Advent, images of God, mystery, nature, prayer, vocation
No amount of straining or swimming, of longing or praying can free me from the currents of life that I think myself so adept in navigating. For the stream runs on without a care and the storms come (inevitably, invariably) to show off their lack of care and deference....
Dec 6, 2016 | Advent, lament, prayer, theodicy
Still I wait. Still I listen. Still there is only disappointment. We have waited. We have hoped. Perhaps now at long last God will answer the generations who have cried. Perhaps. But here — here is a shoulder for comfort until God comes. Unless God doesn’t...
Dec 5, 2016 | Advent, prayer
Sing Glory! Glory for grace and glory for laughter. Cry Glory! Glory for mercy and glory for comfort. Live Glory! Glory to love and glory to God. on Baruch 5:1-2
Dec 4, 2016 | Advent, peace, prayer
What we have not imagined, O Christ, you have called into being: the radical repair of relationships, the unusual alliance of predator & prey, the unexpected repentance of the aggressor. What we have not embodied, O Christ, you have required of our being:...
