In the space between two waves the silence of all that is holy lingers. It curls against the deep and salty intention of God, gathering the wisdom of the ancients, the broken and the mended hearts, and the hopes of generations to come. Blessed One, in the fluid dance that is your creation we rise… Read More
Monday Prayer
Holy One, From the depths, and the echoes of all that is within me, I gather the bits, the chunks, the gaps and the ether of who I am and release it to our embrace and embodiment. Receive my longing and hunger, O God. See my face, kiss my tears, wrap the tendrils of my… Read More
Monday Prayer: blessing
In these hard days I’m digging deep to find blessing. It’s all around me, I know, yet the bits and pieces seem to float around me like feathers on a breeze. Wispy. Fleeting. So as I dig I rejoice in the treasures unearthed. The trust of an aging dog. The… Read More
Monday Prayer: We
Before we are anything else we are daughters. We claim the mantle of our first shaping from the breast of nurture and dreams. Mothers that tend households and feed multitudes; women that leave their own young to tie our shoes and set a plate before us; books that invite us to tumble into the expansive… Read More
Friday Prayer
Look. I try not to treat You like a divine vending machine- prayer in, need out, But in the present situation, that awareness means my prayers are more along the lines: “FFFFF#$)*#0&&#$(&(*^&(#^&^$()*@&#)(*@&&@!#(*&!!!!!” That’s me releasing a fraction of my deep feelings into the deep and wide well that is the Holy Repository for Grief and… Read More
Narrative Lectionary: Move Forward
This week, after leaving Joseph unjustly imprisoned last week at the hands of Mrs. Potiphar, we skip ahead quite a bit in the narrative to Exodus 14:5-7, 10-14, 21-29 and the story of the long walk to freedom for the Israelites, out of bondage in Egypt, through the Red Sea. Working Preacher commentary is here. The… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Always in season
Perversely, since I stepped out of parish/congregational ministry, I’ve fallen in love all over again with the texts that, week after week, speak into life and culture. Somehow, freed of the pressure of preaching every week, I’ve gained a new appreciation of the timeless relevance of Scripture in all that confronts the world and creation… Read More
Friday Prayer
My parents live in North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. My dad inspects hog waste lagoons for the state of NC. A lagoon is an open depository for hog waste slurry to manage and treat the waste from a large concentration of animals. Since Hurrican Florence, the count of dead hogs (including sows with… Read More
RevGalBookPals: Grandpa’s Tent
I received a free copy of this book for review. No promises were made in exchange for the book. There are not many picture books that deal with death. More specifically, there are not many Christian picture books that accurately and adequately discuss the process of the body dying, but the Christian hope of eternal… Read More
Friday Prayer
Life-giving Mother, Strengthen me to say… To the spiritual forces that oppose you, Get behind me, Satan! To the political forces that subvert your desire for healing and wholeness, Get behind me, Adversary! To the force within me, struggling for control of others and all situations, Get behind me, Sin! I renounce the forces… Read More
