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Category Archives: prayer
Falling star
The sun does not set; it becomes moot. The security light clicks on instead, sensing danger as water falls like silver, holds its form uncontained I do not expect anyone at prayer on a night such as this but something … Continue reading
Swimming in prayer
though the womb of God is wide
I will not drown Continue reading
Posted in poetry, prayer
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Why pray
How can we turn away, when love pursues us
with such glorious desire? Continue reading
Mother of exiles
We gathered in song in a baseball park adjacent to the prison. Our hosts advised us that the women inside could hear us rallying and praying on their behalf. Continue reading
Posted in current events, Gun control, gun safety, prayer, story
Tagged family separation, gun violence, immigration, Statue of Liberty
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Fraction
The crack of the communion host like a whip, like bone, like the click of handcuffs; how far we have roamed from the upper room: warm bread softly torn, love-fuelled bodies, blood fired by passion’s wine. You come to us … Continue reading
Posted in current events, poetry, prayer
Tagged Christ, Christian values, Communion, family separation
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One/three/seven billion
It matters that we know a God who will not allow for isolation, or desolation, who does not disown God’s children, but who sets out time and again, through the prophets, through the wilderness, through the sacraments, through the Spirit to remind us that we are not only created in God’s image, but that God has committed Godself to us, irrevocably, unbreakably. Continue reading
Posted in Holy Days, lectionary reflection, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged Trinity
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Eleison
Christ, have mercy, we expostulate once more. Continue reading
Posted in current events, Gun control, poetry, prayer, story
Tagged #SantaFeShooting, #thoughtsandprayers, gun violence, school shootings
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