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Remembering To Breathe
Because your world, O God, is bigger than mine, I will remember to breathe and open my eyes. Because discovery is delicious to the soul, O God, I will remember to breathe and be inquisitive. Because...
View ArticleLooking into a Mirror
Have you had the experience of looking into a mirror, checking yourself over, walking away … and then returning to the mirror, because you don’t remember checking your hair or necktie? Perhaps you’ve...
View ArticleLent 30: Head-to-Toe Praise
Honor the LORD with your very being. (Proverbs 3:9a, adapted) Praise! Praise God with the light of your eyes, with their bright gleam of joy! Praise! Praise God with the restful pose of your shoulders,...
View ArticleLent 31: Scattered
Is there grace for me to be scattered? Is there even gift in it somewhere? I want to be gathered in, drawn close, secured and grounded, but instead I am scattered like pollen on the cool spring breeze....
View ArticleIn Bits & Pieces
O Eternal Knitter, Most Creative Potter, you who gather pieces in the whirl of chaos and create a beautiful new whole: hold me together. I am unraveling, chipping; my shoulders are tight with knots my...
View ArticleLent 14 (Ashes)
I curl up on the hearth all of my ashes together in a weary pile, utterly spent from generating my own flames broken to pieces by the very heat I crave Will you set a new ember in this heap of mine...
View ArticleLent 28 (Seven Loaves)
I have seven but you ask me for twelve and I can’t imagine how we can see the same loaves of bread but tally them so differently. “This is seven,” I say, and you smile, “This is twelve.” “Seven isn’t...
View ArticleKyrie Eleison
I cannot be other than I am. Rejoice always. I cannot be other than I am. I cannot save myself. Peace be with you. I cannot be other than I am. I cannot labor for my own rebirth. The LORD bless you and...
View ArticleTheodicy & PTSD
For the RevGalBlogPals’ “Faith and Illness” column this week, I expounded upon my experiences of faith through the lens of PTSD, which I first wrote about in a chapter of Denial Is My Spiritual...
View ArticleFor Womxn
Have mercy on our tears, O God, for we have wept ever since Hagar’s heart broke over Ishmael and Rachel lamented her children. If we have won your favor, let our tears nourish protest. Have mercy on...
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