Dec 29, 2019 | Christmas, prayer
So close to your glory, O God, and yet so very far. Rachel’s lament fills our ears from a shul in Monsey, NY to spiked underpasses in London. So close to your glory, O God, and yet so very far. Rachel’s cries resound among the Uygur in Xinjiang, China and...
May 7, 2015 | Bible, scripture
If love favored her, life betrayed her. Hardly a fair trade and if she had been given a choice who’s to say she wouldn’t have preferred life? What do we remember: we remember her weeping, not her loving, not her living; we remember the wail of her death....
May 6, 2015 | Bible, poem, scripture, stories
Do not look in her eyes where dreams have died. Instead by her hips be gladly distracted; watch her hands — busy tending life. Where dreams have died, instead she has planted dogged resolve. Watch her hands — busy tending life in love’s...
