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Year C Proper 9: God-mother
Children of the promise, your God
sings you lullabies of sweet surrender;
binds you with tenderness to her breast. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged breastfeeding, feminine divine, God, God as mother
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Mother of sleepless nights
You are the Mother of all sleepless nights. Before the light was bound over to keep the peace till morning, you neither slumbered nor rested your eyes; before the darkness fell from sheer weary excess of hours; as long as … Continue reading
Leaning
I cannot stand straight. My body shapes itself to air that falls away beneath its drooping head and arms. Once so solid, with you no longer there, I drift as though weightless, of no substance; I lean against the empty … Continue reading
The prodigal God
Waiting for the God to come home; if I saw her on the road would I run, hitching up my skirts, fire up the pyre, melt the golden calf, sacrifice my unbelief, my cold soul on the altar of her … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged God, Luke 15:11-32, parable, prodigal son, repentance, Year C Lent 4
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A word about music
For TrebleFest 2016, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio; in these or other words: Singing is a profound example of how we are made in the image of God. Whether we come to it through the science of the body, the breath … Continue reading
Posted in meditation
Tagged choir, church music, creation, God, music, singing, TrebleFest, Trinity Cathedral Cleveland
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Birth Mother
God, whose womb broke the waters of chaos, gave birth to creation; whose breath stirred the earth, air for our words, spoken first in wonder, and want, our lungs newborn crying out of bewildered love. Prayer Writing Workshop – Diocese … Continue reading
Mind the gap
Holy One, your creativity is infinite; our ability to respond to your expansive imagination is not. I do not think that you forget our frailty. Perhaps we forget that you have made us a little lower than the angels; another … Continue reading
St Michael and All Angels
They were not created on the first day. They are not light, nor dark; they live in bright shadows in between. They do not rise nor set; they were not created on the fourth day. They are not reputed to … Continue reading
Posted in holy days
Tagged angels, creation, Genesis 1, God, Michaelmas, poetry, prayer, time
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Solid ground
Constant God, You are the one fixed point in a universe that never stops moving; expanding, exploding, orbiting, spinning on its axis; the very earth beneath our feet shifts and shrugs, magma boils beneath the surface, fluid. No wonder we … Continue reading
more than watchmen for the morning
In the silence before the dawn,
in the fearful shadows that embalm
the edges of sleep, each sound
is amplified: Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged absence, God, prayer, Psalm 130
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