We need your fullness.  We need your beauty.  We need the hope that comes from knowing You and your habit of love still run through this earth, this city, this church, our homes.  That's all I have today.  Where we are crumpling, brace us.  Where we are blind, open those eyes.  Where we are beyond... Continue Reading →

Thank you for the moon tonight that lit up the snow and the sky and came, blue and clear, like a herald and bell, into my home.    This light that drew me up, made me to look up, to look for its source, to take in its clarity.  It brought me to look around... Continue Reading →

Wake us up.  In all of our parts, wake us up.  This body being knit together and drawn by grace, (and we hope TO GOD that this can be seen) now needs a jolt--a blast--a rush of wind to wake us up to what we are now to be.  Wake up our leaders--wake up their... Continue Reading →

We pray for the building of this community, from the inside out.  We pray for people.  For all the ways people are connected - daughter, sister, wives, mothers, sons, brothers, husbands, fathers.  For friendships across the aisles.  We pray for the peace of you to be what characterizes each of these relationships - that peace... Continue Reading →

For our body, our community's Body, we pray.  For the health and functioning of each part.  For the care and devotion to each part.  For the attention and listening to each part.  For the ability to see each part as essential to the whole - to see each part as essential to ourselves - to... Continue Reading →

Over and over, we bring you our fear and anxiety.  Over church, over each other, over ourselves.  And over and over you keep saying, Do Not Be Afraid.  Do Not Be Afraid over church, over each other, over yourself, you say.  Because You, you ride in on a donkey.  And this somehow is the thing... Continue Reading →

We are watching what you do and we are trying to copy, like children, copying what they see their parents do.  Mostly what You do is love us.  We will keep company with you and learn a life of love.  We will observe how Christ loved us.  Your love is not cautious but extravagant.  You... Continue Reading →

We lose our sleep in times like these.  Replaced with circling thoughts - What should we do?  What should we do?  What should we do? We do not trust that you come through and then again, we only trust that you can make this alright.    We are so afraid of what happens when there... Continue Reading →

We crowd you, like you've always been crowded.  We want to keep up, we want whatever it is you'll give to us.  Two-eyed, able-bodied, we want all the more you have. But for that one You made an exception,  the exception that is actually Your rule, and you ground this whole circus to a halt.... Continue Reading →