Dear God of the Hungry, Exhausted, and Broken, be present with us.
Read MoreGod of Creation, we are tired, hopeless, and distracted.
Read MoreHow does one live one by one? To see each car that passes, not as a soulless mechanized obstacle, but as a vehicle containing someone…
Read MoreFact: a paper bag used to bring home various comestibles is a grocery bag, sack, or, apparently, a poke. It is not a robot mask.
Read MoreBreakfast begins right after the dinner dishes are done. After the dishwasher is started, I set up my coffee to drip, automatically, at 7:25 am and mix together breakfast.
Read MoreIn the beginning was the Word... In the beginning, God said let there be…What does it mean to create?
Read MoreMy daughter and I were on a walk today when she gasped and pointed with a breathless, “Look at that one!”
Read MoreI love Advent. I am a Christmas Eve girl to my toes. Everything remains to be determined. On Christmas Eve, there is still something to look forward to.
Read MoreHush! The darkness beckons. Those of us living in the northern hemisphere hang in a moment of stillness. The night of the year is upon us.
Read MoreWhat can be said about curiosity? In my lifetime it has been the golden child of emotions. Living her spangled life in contrast to drab “boredom.”
Read MoreAnd just like that the mystery is dispelled. The question is replaced by an answer.
Read MoreAdvent has arrived once more. It is a return to the beginning.
Read MoreOne of the most nourishing parts of my work with the Missional Wisdom Foundation is the development of and my participation in the Incarnational Study Series.
Read MoreLike a blaze of color across a graphite landscape, an Epiphany of hope arrives as an outrage.
Read MoreGod who created the sun that gives us light and the plants who turn that light into energy, we give you thanks! Incarnate God who came to table, we give you thanks! Holy Spirit who fills us with wonder, we give you thanks!
Amen.
Son of God who sat and told stories, Creator God who filled the stones with tales of mystery, Spirit of God who inhabits our stories, be they tales of joy or sorrow, grant us the courage to tell the truth—our truth.
Amen.
Spirit of God, who hovered over the chaos of the waters, meet us in the chaos of movement. Meet us on the way.
Read MoreSomething has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!
Who am I becoming? As Scrooge encounters a future without him, rippling with the effects of a life long-lived under his miserly virtues and values, he comes face to face with the impact of his actions, the harvest of seeds long-sown.
Read MoreSeeing light coming from the other room, Scrooge peeks inside to find that sure enough, the next ghost has paid his visit.
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