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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
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 violence, 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, poetry, prayer, story
Tagged #SantaFeShooting, #thoughtsandprayers, gun violence, school shootings
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The prayer bear
God as the she-bear protecting her cubs kept coming back around to haunt us. Continue reading
Posted in prayer, story
Tagged childhood, comfort, expansive language, illness, images of God
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The prayer of a lost Leviathan
My Creator, when you made sea monsters for sport, why would you not make me buoyant, flattening the waves, smoothing surfaces, resting zen-like on the moon’s reflection, bathed beautiful by her silver light; why not fiercely playful, breaking unexpectedly, tossing … Continue reading
Silent prayer
Eyelids lowered, immersed in unstillness and disquiet; the tumble dryer tumbles, the dishwasher sloshes, the circuits in my head hum in ecstatic, rhythmic union with the beverage fridge. Beyond the glass, fighting rip tides on the wind, a frantic bird … Continue reading
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Inhabiting Thomas
Because you came back for Thomas I hope you may come back for me. Because you breathed peace upon Thomas I wonder if there is a peace for me. Because you let Thomas touch you I believe I will hold … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation, story
Tagged doubting Thomas, Easter 2, John 20:19-31, Resurrection
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