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Be still and know: meditation on a breathing meditation
After each breath is complete, there is a pause, in which nothing at all happens. In that pause, there is stillness, silence, a full and sufficient absence. Continue reading
Posted in book review, meditation, poetry, prayer
Tagged #OneBreathBook, absence, breath, childbirth, God, J. Dana Trent, meditation
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Book Review: We Pray With Her
“A gifted resource as varied as 70 women can be, while holding the thread in which women find themselves over and again, of sometimes grumpy, sometimes celebratory, oft-times put-upon, regularly resisting and persisting sisterhood.” Continue reading
The widow’s might
what if the widow’s mite was hope, and she spent all she had to live on
Posted in haiku, lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged Mark 12:38-44, widow's mite, Year B Proper 27
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We talked about this
Shackled to the shadows of a brutalist building, words barely grazing our lips, we talked about this. Our breath stirred the air, that sabbath exhalation at the end of creation; the wordless sigh of God.
Posted in current events, poetry, prayer
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Dead Sea Prayer
Floating in brine designed not for propagating but for pickling; Suspended between peace and petrification, love and devotion. When will your waters break afresh, bringing a new creation to its first astonished breath?
Morning prayer
A rabbit, startled by the
gas-powered scythe scuttered,
white tail exposed,
exiting garden right. Continue reading
Salt and sabbatical
But that is the theology of Thomas the Tank Engine, who longs only to hear the Fat Controller call him “a useful little engine.” It is not the theology found in the Bible nor in the Word of God, Jesus the Christ, who celebrates the meek and the helpless, the poor in spirit and the hopeless, the errant and the outcast, the ungodlike. Continue reading
Posted in current events, lectionary reflection, prayer, sermon
Tagged James 5:13-20, Jesus, Mark 9:38-50, theology, Thomas the Tank Engine, Year B Proper 21
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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
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Why pray
How can we turn away, when love pursues us
with such glorious desire? Continue reading
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