Approx. read time: 3:15 min The prophetic and divinely subversive season of Advent slips in, I notice, while shoppers’ attention is fixed on nabbing a parking spot, a deal, and the dream of abundant merch on every shelf. A prophetic season, I say, because we can’t say we didn’t get the warning: The reign… Read more »
Read time: approx. 1:30 minute Every morning, now, I rise before dawn, light the oil lamp, behold the lovely faces of the three angelic figures seated at Abram’s table, awaiting Sarai’s feast. The one in the center, in the rabbi robe, hand resting on the table, two fingers extended, quietly reveals who he is…. Read more »
Read time: 1 minute If I lived a life free of vulnerability I’d never experience … the kindness of strangers the skill of attentiveness the art of the possible the craft of imagination the invitation of trust the hope of grace the blessing of aloneness the sense of discovery the thrill of not knowing the… Read more »
Approx. read time: 1:00 min Oh Elders, I touch your venerable bark and stand in awe of your magnificence as I walk this stretch of trail. You stand today exactly where you began, not one inch off from where you stood as saplings. Your roots, invisible, hold you secure. In this quiet midday hour,… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:25 min I live a life of what you might call itinerant poverty. Itinerant means moving from place to place, moving to where the possibilities are. The word itinerary suggests the same. Many Dustbowl era folks lived the itinerant life, under harsher, more dire conditions than I know today. Jesus lived… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:00 min This morning, riding up the McKenzie River corridor, I look out the window at the fast-passing scenery. All I see is a wash of every imaginable shade of green. Lush green, with the river running fast, and pretty high, alongside the two-lane highway. I sense my self beginning to… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:00 min. Lately I’ve had a hard time focusing. Like most everyone else, I get distracted with “being busy.” “Being busy” is our culture’s code for how we prove our worth, even if only to ourselves. Being busy is easy. Being focused, I discover, is a discipline. It means I must… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:35 min. This week a U.S. Congressmember acknowledges, of the aggressions in Ukraine, that the United States essentially is at war with another nuclear superpower. “And it’s important that we win.” I was not ready to have my heart and my attention seized by this long-distance bloodbath, which now suddenly feels… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:35 min. Today is Good Friday, the solemn celebration of the Lord’s arrest, mock trial, scourging, crucifixion, and finally, his burial. That “finally” piece feels so … final. Death—the ultimate silencing of the prophet, the troublemaker, divine Lover, the Lord. I think, today, of how Jesus was forced, like other… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:40 min. I am thinking about Jesus. I am thinking about bread. I am thinking about wheat. I am thinking about the people of Ukraine. I am thinking about Jesus. It’s a circular thought, I notice. Coherent, complete. I think about Jesus on the night of his arrest, at table. His… Read more »
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