A Love Poem about You: Sacred Relationships
Reading Time: 2 minutes Burst of blue like living flame Searching from wintered stalk. Forlorn whistle calls a name. Lone bluebird becomes a flock. …
Sunday Psalm: Living in God’s Ordinary Grace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Happy New Year. The anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing speaks of ordinary grace, the daily presence of God. …
A Christmas Psalm: May the Love, Peace, Joy, and Hope of Christ Abide in Us
Reading Time: 2 minutes Merry Christmas! During Advent many have lit candles that symbolize love, peace, joy, and hope. Those are common words we …
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Life Without Hope is Deadly. How Do You Find and Hold onto Hidden Hope?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hope is a dangerous thing. It demands we search the dark corners of life for what appears not to be …
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Words of advent: Advent Psalm: A Prayer to Glimpse and Capture God’s Joy
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week’s Word of Advent is joy. Joy is something all of us have experienced but few of us are …
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Words of Advent: What Is Peace? Shalom Stands Strong in the Fire of Life
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the early 70s Richard Nixon mocked war protesters by throwing up double peace signs and shaking his jowls like …
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Advent Psalm: Finding Elusive Peace in a Season of Strife
Reading Time: 2 minutes Four words have defined Advent for centuries: Love, peace, joy, and hope. Each week I’ll turn one of those words …
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Words of Advent: What Is Love? Love is a Name
Reading Time: 6 minutes Love has a name. For most of us when we think of being loved, unconditionally cared for, listened to, touched, …
Advent Psalm: A Song of True Love
Reading Time: 2 minutes I intended to post this on the first Sunday of Advent. That day was when many people lit the Love …
Words Wield the Power to Create and Destroy our Lives
Reading Time: 5 minutes I love words. Redeem, discombobulated, aspen, cleave, grace, actually, ravel, revel, truck, maybe, and ubiquitous are a few favorites that …
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