A Tender New Year
As we pass over the threshold between yearsI hope for you, tenderness;that you become tenderness. Tender with your longings,tender with the things that are still impossible.Tender. [...]
Epiphany Hymn
Light and the dark dancing with one another […]
Epiphany Prayers: Cups To Catch the Stars
Arise, lift up your hearts and shine, For God’s brightness is covering us. God, holding out to us gifts, Gifts of [...]
Love and Long Nights
There are some mornings I wake with dread; things press in and I lie gathering my courage to drop under it all to where that [...]
Portals to Joy
What if I dive down under the distortion . . . I now know that it’s not only me who doesn’t always enter Advent gracefully. Perhaps [...]
Bending into Advent
Nativity Lato Garcia I entered Advent as a bent woman. I could not raise my head to see the blue stem [...]
A Carol for the Longest Night
Silent Night, Holy NightHere we long for your LightHere your Presence is achingly nearHere your Love gently touches our fear Hold our tears in your [...]
An Advent Hymn: new words for a familiar tune
Advent words for Hark the Herald Angels Sing Listen to the angels sing News of coming joy they bring Hopes abandoned are restored In the ever-birthing [...]
Hallows
We are put in perspective by the great crowd of witnesses that assemble. Coming to this All Hallows evening we hear the call to pay attention [...]
November Table Church -Thresholds & Thin Places
Sometimes something shivers us — a sunset, a single wildflower, a child playing in the park or in the street, a thousand scenes, a thousand times. [...]