This Incarnate Faith
This prayer was written by a community builder, Agnes C., who nurses our city's most vulnerable, raises some incredible kids, and spends her spare time building and equipping communities of empathy - starting with the kids. You can find her work at Starling Kids where she lets people know ways to engage their kids... Continue Reading →
Lent is for paying attention. And getting quiet. And being honest about who we are, where we are, how we are and whose we are. This is a reflection that calls me there. My Life as a Prayer One day I just stopped. I stopped talking, requesting, asking, pleading, demanding, arguing. I stopped talking to... Continue Reading →
With even a teensy glance at the gospels (i.e. Mt 5,6,7), I see consistently that Jesus is zero percent interested in staying on the surface of life and staying in the realm of rule-following, and power wielding and outward shows of fidelity and 100% interested in going to the deep places that we often hide, or... Continue Reading →
Margaret Ackland, Last Supper, 1993 When I was 19, I realized that I probably would never get answers to some of my questions, at least not in the timing I was demanding. In some ways, so many of our faith traditions declare the answer is "There" and we are tasked with attaching our lives to... Continue Reading →
--for students, researchers, learners at the end of a semester - Jesus of the Stacks Jesus of all the true things Jesus of all the words. We study. Oh we know so much. We memorize. But we have forgotten how to question. In our ease, in our dis-ease, in our need to just Get... Continue Reading →
My Grandmother's funeral was last week. All of her children plus all her grandchildren were there. And we celebrated her whole life. Her kids knew her most and most benefitted from her calmness and kindness. And we grandchildren benefit too from a legacy of life-giving, not life-diminishing. She was loving and beautiful and I felt... Continue Reading →
This prayer is truly a lenten prayer from Karen Wilk, posted on Missio Alliance page here. It is repentant, longing to turn. It is honest, it is willing to respond. I am here for what Missio Alliance are putting out there so if you are interested you should check them out. ... Continue Reading →
So here is a lenten prayer for presence in the fullness of little-ish kid family. Prayer for my little family Be in our eating, our laughing, our cajoling, our pleading. Be in our frustration, our crying, our words, our hard words. Redeem those words that cannot be unsaid Be in our cleaning, scrubbing, wiping,... Continue Reading →
--I have many bits of prayers floating around in journals and scrap pieces of paper from time spent in hospital rooms, waiting rooms. I have now many friends who have to be in these rooms, have to wait in them, have to hear things no one ever wants to hear. The waiting seems to... Continue Reading →
DEEP BEAUTY IN THE BROKEN EARTH To see a flower in the Spring, we must Believe that there is beauty to be had In gardens we never will control. “Trust And hope that dirt becomes a launching pad For raising beauty in this violent earth?” The cynics scoff but have no solutions, Because they do... Continue Reading →
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