Approx. read time: 3:30 min. I never know what words, what thoughts, will emerge in the first dim moments of a new day. I awaken, check my clock, and stretch. It’s 5:20 a.m., ten minutes ahead of the alarm, which I turn off. I’m irreversibly awake. I pray the doxology, praise to Holy Trinity. … Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:30 min. In 7th grade I pretty much understood that I wasn’t into delivering the counterpunch. This was after I got dissed off the volleyball team. I don’t mean the school’s competitive team. I mean the one that formed at recess. The counsel I received? If they bully you, you bully… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:30 min. A friend shares a phrase, which I hear differently from the way she presents it. Her phrase is, Love what’s right in front of you. Well, the word right can mean so many things. It can mean a direction, like when another friend says: Turn right at the corner. When… Read more »
Read time: Approx. 2:00 minutes The brilliant and encouraging image of Epiphany, which church celebrates on January 6th, is that beautiful star in the night sky, guiding the Wise Ones, the Wisdom Seekers, to the place where a newborn Infant and Family will be found. These Wisdom Seekers trust the bright light to guide them… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:15 min. I glance at the clock on the wall across the room. It tells me we’re already a couple of hours into the new year. It’s a bitter cold night, and I mark this turning of the year in the Exhibition Hall at the County Fairgrounds. The Exhibition Hall is… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:30 min. In these last, precious days of Advent my thoughts, and creative energies, are deep into the Scriptures of the Lenten season. And I notice that this Lenten immersion jolts my understanding of what I celebrate at Christmas. This is a good thing. Jesus, even in his infancy, has power… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:10 min. Giving thanks. I don’t do it nearly often enough. I think this every year as Thanksgiving Day approaches, and I feel overcome by a case of the guilties. And yet, I think: How small, that we set aside a day—a day!—to pause, remember, and give thanks, for material things… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:40 min. I am in awe of the mammoth 12-story student housing complex going up a block and a half from my living room windows. I am in awe of the bright-orange safety-vest-clad worker who appears to have no physical supports, laboring away on the outer rim of what will be… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:20 min. Alright, already! I hear God lamenting. If only my people—that would be all of us, everywhere—If only my people would understand: It’s all about love! No matter what the matter is, it’s all about love. I have a hunch that God is speaking about all-caps LOVE, the hidden force in… Read more »
Approx. 6:30 min. I feel exhausted, from a long hot summer. Exhausted from the Delta surge. Exhausted from outsized weather events. Exhausted from news of countries blowing up, caving in, shaking down, falling apart. Exhausted from news of devastated landscapes, raging wildfires, earth-ripping rains, vast arid wastelands, desiccated waterways, dead fish, dead birds, dead… Read more »
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