We need you fully present, fully awake. We need light-bearers, God-bearers, Kingdom-bringers, hope-servers. We are hungry for your glad tidings shouted from mountaintops, whispered into smartphones, wrapped around the shoulders of the widow sitting hands-folded in the…
(SLOW Word at the bottom. Remember, every Monday and Thursday there will be a Lectio Divina right here. Let’s savor the Word together.) Perhaps you’d like to read in the quiet. I get that. Or perhaps you are like my sister…
Her heart squeezed tight as she stepped out of the silver Honda after the six hour drive. She stretched her legs and willed her heart to stretch too, but felt the familiar anxiety pinch it tight. She was a newlywed…
Hello you…heavy-laden one. You know that tug-of-war you’ve been straining with? All of your spirit pulling, begging, striving in the dust of a well-worn path? Today is an invitation to open your fingers’ maniacal grip. Feel the heavy frayed and frazzled rope…
In October in Harrisburg, PA Felicia had walked the runway interceding…in their shoes. She told the horrors of the stories of the more than 20 million trafficked simply by wearing a dress. It’s a runway show called Unchained (click…
On that first warmish day of spring, we throw all our weight against creaking sashes until the smell of moist earth fills every corner of the house. All day long moving from room to room we inhale the mixture of…
The Advent lectionary and my little Advent series here collided randomly this Sunday in the most satisfying way. Yesterday’s scriptures, “He shall feed his flock” was featured for the Old Testament and then were repeated by Christ to John the Baptist…
They were too much, for whatever reason. They were the lambs the ewe kicked away from her warmth, milk, care. These are the bummer lambs in the shepherding tradition, shunned from mom’s circle of care, orphaned. She pushes them away,…
Isaiah 35:5&6 “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped”. “Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing …“ This short recitative…
Can we talk about how effortlessly rich Kathleen Battle’s voice is? Hands down my favorite soprano of all time. “The peace of the Lord be with you.” We greet, shake hands, smile into the eyes of strangers and mumble…