My Life’s Companion, Friend of All, Good morning. Sun is shining. Birds started singing so early today it was like they couldn’t wait any longer to wake us up. With morning broken, their song is even louder. They are giddy with sun-ripening currants on the bush and their first young ones finally flown the nest.… Read More
Thank you, Spirit, For there is evening and there is morning, another day. My eyes don’t want to open quite yet so I’m praying. Somewhere in this new day, may I see your joy in earth and sky and creatures belonging to you. May I accept your holy nudge toward a more open-hearted interaction with… Read More
*In my country, Canada, we have been bleeding truth. Using radar, 215 bodies of buried Indigenous children were located on the grounds of a former residential school, and we know there must be more. Every country has a turn at bleeding truth, though, doesn’t it? So this prayer is ours. Spirit, sometimes I can’t find… Read More
What has Spirit brought to birth in our spirits? Today three passages show us how Spirit works and what it feels like. In Isaiah 6, the prophet experiences an epic and still intimate rebirth of his spirit. Paralyzed by his sin before God, all the action unfolds around him. Special effects touch all the human… Read More
Dear God, I don’t know if this is anything, or not. Your biggest fattest robin I’ve ever seen just tapped at my window. She did not fly against the glass by accident but tapped it with her beak. I didn’t imagine it, surely, God. She was dusted in your snow just like I was a… Read More
I’m running and running. Like a bad dream. If I slow down my own shaking scares me more. I am running and trying to pray but words have left me—all sucked into fear that the worst is not over. I keep running. My side aches. Still running. The landscape changes. I have run a long… Read More
Mark 11:1-11 John 12:12-16 Approaching Jerusalem, Jesus paused. It had been another unsettling week for the disciples – a week full of parables they struggled to understand, an unexpected lunch with a tax collector, and a morbid take on this trip to Jerusalem. But seeing the city in the distance and knowing that ahead lay… Read More
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Now that we’ve officially launched Lent 2021 and the big joke is that people think they never left Lent 2020, it’s the perfect opportunity to remember that somebody’s always in Lent, pandemic or no pandemic. Yes, every day of every year people face their mortality, great losses, fears,… Read More
What would we do without you, sun and earth and air and water? Praise you, Creator, who set them into life and introduced them to each other! For the air has warmed enough for the dog and I to stand silent and safe in the road where snow and ice melted down to pavement, a… Read More
The earth sounds different when it’s cold, God. Your molecules of creation slow down. The hum of life vibrating doesn’t surround me and my dog on our morning walk. We are explorers of a new world way too far below zero where snow sounds like hard polystyrene foam when we step on it. It’s a… Read More
