Sunday Psalm: The Imago Dei in Human Face
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s common to experience God sightings in sunsets, geese in flight, ocean waves, and other aspects of nature. Nature reflects …
Lent
Sacrifice Misunderstood: The Main Reason People Avoid or Sacrifice so Little in Lent
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s your favorite Jesus saying? Love God and love your neighbor is an especially admired one. Hard to find fault …
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How Jesus Gives a Damn about our Suffering: A Maundy Thursday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first time I celebrated Easter as something more than bunnies and colored eggs was in 1973. I’d become a …
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A Prayer Against Violence: An Honest Conversation with God
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like you I’ve been trying to process the most recent senseless killings in Boulder (and Atlanta). I’ve started several …
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A Prayer for Blessing the Work of our Hands
Reading Time: 3 minutes My first job at eleven years old was manning a massive industrial lawnmower and cutting the huge lawn for …
Are You Burned Out on Religion and Life?Join Jesus!
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m rhythmically impaired. I stumbled (literally) on this fact in Navy Boot Camp. Marching was the approved way to …
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Winter Prayer: A Cry for Relief when Hope Is Frozen
Reading Time: 2 minutes A WINTER PSALM As winter yearns for spring, As a frozen river anticipates thaw, O Lord, We wait on you, …
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Waiting for Communion Holy Saturday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting. How did Jesus’ disciples feel on that dark Saturday after Jesus was crucified? Remembering the emptiness, grief, fear, disbelief, …
Receiving the Mystery: How Not Knowing Brings Peace
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first time I experienced the Grand Canyon, I stood back from its precipice in child-like awe stunned by …
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Listening to God: A Matter of Life and Death
Reading Time: 4 minutes Through Kalista’s death God taught me to listen. Through listening God is continually renewing my life!