Wonder At What Tender Flesh Receives
Amazement should mark our every inhalation – amazement that we live, that love and thought and breath find home in our flesh! Amazement too that there is a distinct “I” who is the self who is...
View ArticleWake Up? Do I Have To?
Our new rescue pup, MayBelle, is a delight and a handful. Although she’s supposedly 4 years old, she is in many ways experiencing puppyhood with us. Like a puppy, she goes from wild to zonked out. The...
View ArticleLent 2017: Learning to Live Loved
Tomorrow Lent begins. And so, I’m beginning a daily – or near daily – effort to write a few (or more) words here. Although there is no one overarching theme that will be pursued, some patterns may...
View ArticleGive Your Life Away, So You Don’t Lose You
What?! Well, that’s what I heard in the Gospel reading for Thursday. “whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to...
View ArticleTeach Me Where I Keep Company with Fear: Psalm 51
Psalm 51 is a staple of Lent, of Fridays, of pleading for mercy and forgiveness. As Friday has just passed, I share with you this translation/poetic rendering of the psalm from Nan Merrill’s Psalms...
View ArticleBlessed is She Who Trusted
“Blessed is she who trusted that the Lord’s words to her would be fulfilled.” (Elizabeth to Mary at the Visitation in Luke). As we celebrate our sister in life and faith, Mary, on the feast of the...
View ArticleAdvent: Annunciation in Poetry
Virgin by Luci Shaw As if until that moment nothing real had happened since Creation As if outside the world were empty so that she and he were all there was — he mover, she moved upon As if her...
View ArticleSaved by Faithfulness
I was listening to a podcast today which spoke, in part, about the difference between faith and faithfulness, as it described the writings of St. Paul in the New Testament. It’s hung with me today,...
View ArticleLighten Up!
I’m an unabashed dog person, and always will be. CoCo, my present companion, loves in the morning to jump up next to me when I first sit up on the side of the bed, jump down and frantically run into...
View ArticleGuided
I’m being guided. I am one who cannot help but listen and notice. Perhaps it has always been this way. It seems so. I read many books at once, all the time – fiction and non-fiction – and hold and...
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