Tag Archives: prayer

Winter prayer

Posted on January 27, 2019 by

Snow has fallen, slurring my footsteps, skewing my pathway to prayer. Only become as a child, you say: trade caution for the headlong hurtle; build snowmen, not as idols but monument to the meeting of flesh and raw air.

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Book Review: We Pray With Her

Posted on November 25, 2018 by

“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 →

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Book Review: One Breath at a Time, by J. Dana Trent

Posted on November 20, 2018 by

Dana Trent is a genuine fellow traveler … This is meditation for real life. Continue reading →

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A house of cedar

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

“Wherever you have gone,” God says, “I have gone with you. Whatever trials you have faced, I have faced beside you. Whatever dangers befell you, I stood before you. What makes you think that in order to keep me by your side, you have to build me a cedar box, store me like cloth in mothballs?” Continue reading →

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Deliver us from evil

Posted on June 17, 2018 by

As a Christian I am bound by the Law to love God and to love my neighbor. As an Episcopalian I have promised to respect the dignity of every human being. As an American citizen, I am horrified that our government is using the forced removal of children to punish and intimidate parents who would seek asylum, refuge, or simply a home in these United States. Such practice is antithetical to human dignity, human rights, and God’s intention for the human family. Continue reading →

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Book review: Denial is my spiritual practice, Hackenberg & Spong

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

I recommend that you acquire a copy, and keep it close for those moments when, for the sake of faith or sanity, you need to find yourself reflected in the mirror of another soul that has wrestled with life and with God. Continue reading →

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Discernment

Posted on January 19, 2018 by

I asked God a hundred times or so to show me the way. Trying to wrestle guidance from the silence was like wringing a dry towel in the desert and hoping for water to soothe a burning tongue. Today, whether … Continue reading →

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