Tag Archives: prayer

prayer incarnate

Posted on September 12, 2019 by

How did you pray, body and breath, those wilderness days beneath stars that made promises, sand through your hands counting moments since creation, each grain an erosion of the whole; how did you pray, body and spirit sticky with honey … Continue reading →

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Undertow

Posted on May 2, 2019 by

I went to the water filled with chaos, foaming with worry, frothy with fear; I went to the water cold as winter, opaque as oil. I went to the water to see your Spirit spraying the rocks with invisible ink, animation drawn out of … Continue reading →

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A prayer for the anxious preacher

Posted on March 30, 2019 by

Faint stigmata of fingernails in palm-flesh, the careful unclenching of the jaw do not show, but You know, Anointed with anxiety in the Garden. If I lay end to end the moments I have spent, keys in hand, chanting, “okay, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Made to Move, by Wendy LeBolt

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

Have you ever heard of a Kinesthetic Christian? Neither had I, until Wendy LeBolt sent me a copy of her book to review. Made to Move: Knowing and Loving God Through Our Bodies is LeBolt’s guide to loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength – without making half of them metaphorical. Continue reading →

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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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