Spring Thanks
“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone” Song of Solomon 2:11 Oh, Lord, what a wonder You are! I stand back and exult in the coming of yet another magical spring, so beautiful it takes…
Songs of the Night
There’s something about evening, after the sun says good-bye to the day, that opens a new room for the soul to enter and explore. In a darkened room, all pretense falls away:especially in a cold winter with a fire crackling…
Love Saturated Evangelism
Mark 1:29-42 Andrew and another disciple zigzagged with Jesus through the crowd to his home, perhaps a room at an inn, maybe a space on a rented rooftop able to feel the vibrations of a busy family below. Their…
The Gift of Vulnerability – The leper and my story entertwine
“All of us are old. And all of us are frail. All of us, indeed, are handicapped. It’s just that some of us can pretend better than others.” John Kavanagh Mark 1:40-45 All around the Galilee region the wind…
Mercy: Worship
“Your mercy, your mercy has stolen my heart”….the words tiptoe through my heart . I creep close and hard under the shelter of your wide-winged love. I snuggle close to the heart thump inside. Under your eagle eye I rest.…
Sermon in a Graveyard
This is a true story, written exactly as it happened to me in the “morning” of my mothering years. It was published once, and then again and again. It seemed to touch a chord in many women’s hearts. And so,…
Thanks Healing
After reading One Thousand Gifts, a description of my own transformation: I was born blind. Fear covered my eyes like scaled cataracts and I was afraid to walk, afraid to move without feeling along the walls with my hands, my…
Born Again this Morning: Worship Help
Linda is enabling us to read one of her “worship helps” to get us ready for our own worship: Father! We meet again! Morning light skitters glad along eastern skies. Candlelight flickers. Ballet of light, this, in our holy of…
The Privilege of Love
Mark 1:16-18 Read it. I was born into a world of big dreams (even in ministry) and I have loved them, have written poetry about them, breathed onto them before I shined them and set them up on the…
The Lord is my Shepherd Thanksgiving
THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. Psalm 23:1 You have the crook, yes, but You have the heart, open and generous, protecting, shielding. I shall not lack…here, now in this Moment. …