Pouting
Have you not known? No, I haven’t. Have you not heard? I’ve been straining, my God… Have you not understood? This is what I’m trying to say, O Evasive One. The winds are blowing, but they do not carry...
View ArticleLent 2 (Blessing)
Shall it always be, O God, that one be given favor and the other be cast to wilderness? Must it be that one alone may feast while his brother scrambles for crumbs; that a sister dances and twirls with...
View ArticleLent 3 (Remember)
Remember, O God. Let not your ear be disconnected from your heart, your eye disassociated from your memory. Listen. Look. Remember. Ask yourself, Most Holy One — where have you witnessed pain and...
View ArticleLent 7 (Counting)
Cry, sister, cry through the long nights when the moon alone is a willing friend who will name the hard truth that God has left us alone to count the stars to count the days to count the lives 317 days...
View ArticleLent 13 (Enigma)
Out of sight. Beyond reach. I would holler and throw a fit if I thought it would make you hear but who can force your listening or command your attention? Who can come before you with any success? Let...
View ArticleLent 19 (Slush)
It’s all just crap complete dirt and crud encrusted on slush what’s left behind from a dreary winter forcing me to dodge jump over wade through yet another season of disaster and i just want to yell...
View ArticleLent 23 (Stars)
I wait for you to be the strength of the Lion but you are busy saving your own hide from all who hunt the unconquerable. I watch patiently for your Harp to rise and soothe the world into peace but your...
View ArticleLent 38 (Maundy Thursday)
Where to begin? You are more than I can handle, O Christ, and beyond my efforts of comprehension; this I acknowledge as I sit with you at the table as I wait with you in the deepening shadows as I try...
View ArticleThe Luxury of Talking about Race
Two weeks ago, I led a conversation on race and faith, inviting participants to reflect on their experiences of race & ethnicity as well as on the ways that their church upbringings had (or hadn’t)...
View ArticlePerfect Indicative
“God has declared victory! God has remembered God’s faithfulness! All the ends of the earth have seen God’s triumph!” so the psalmist says but apparently I missed it — perfect and indicative though it...
View ArticleFools Say
I tell you: there is no God for this world will march to its own dying end without care or comfort, and most of all, without repentance for its sins. If there were a God we would not be allowed to live...
View ArticleA Lectionary Meditation on #BlackLivesMatter
The following readings and liturgies offer a #BlackLivesMatter reflection on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for this coming Sunday, the 11th Sunday after Pentecost (Year B). CALL TO WORSHIP...
View ArticleDepleted
I come to you empty and leave the same. What is the sacred nature of Desolation? What is the particular hell of cliches that fill it? You have exhausted me by your silence, and your Spirit’s sighs are...
View ArticleSquare One
You promised me the moon, the stars, the sun and all beauty with your best poetry. You promised me your hand, your word full of signs and love. You promised too: breath and life, mercy for generations,...
View ArticleCold
Must it always be silence? Will you never love through a slow smile a warm hand or even a whisper? Of all the ways in the world to be with us — silence?? There are some who remember your once-and-done...
View ArticleSlaughter of the Innocents
For the children who died by Herod’s word before they even learned to talk, O LORD, hear our prayer. For the boy who will not see his 13th birthday, O LORD, hear our prayer. For the girl who never got...
View ArticleThird Sunday in Lent
How is it within you, O God, to imagine land flowing with milk and honey, bright rivers spilling over with satisfying life to make harvests abundant and people glad to no longer know thirst? How is it,...
View ArticlePassing Away
Who will mourn death when it dies? Who will cry out against the drying of tears? Who will offer their shoulder when pain passes away? You have promised it, O God, and it is certainly so that all things...
View ArticleWe Never Meant to Love You
Though we pressed our bibles to your hands and promised you life in the deep chilly river we never meant to love you and prayed Christ would forgive you for not being like us, not even at the threat of...
View ArticleSunday Prayer: Faithful
Is it true, God, that you are faithful even when life is a gauntlet of troubles and each day seems longer than the next? Is it true that your inheritance is plentiful even though we squander and fight...
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