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Heartbreak: Lent Two
Our small Lenten community this week sought to accompany the Compassionate One through heartbreak that is ours and his. We considered the words of poet David Whyte on Heartbreak, (read below) and laid our ear against the heart of Jesus. We could hear it beat, we could hear it break. We know heartbreak in our…
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Heart to Heart: Lent One
I’m keeping company this Lent with a group of wise women. We’re considering courage, from the old French word coeur meaning ‘heart’. We’re coming together to be a Lenten community that nurtures the practice of living heart-to-heart, asking ourselves what practices will encourage us to resist strategies of invulnerability. How will we consider our…
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Threads of Light
Thinking about church and the transfiguration I found a piece of conversation jangling around in my mind like loose change in a pocket. It was a conversation about “church”, where we are now and where we were 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, those of us who are part of church community. The conversational…
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Ash Wednesday Worship
Ash Wednesday [This is a quiet, spare worship. For those who are moving from a Mardi Gras gathering into the quiet of this worship I would suggest that any carnival music used be gradually silenced or that one by one each instrument fade away til only one is left playing. A preamble…
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This is not Trump’s day
On this seemingly surreal but also real day when Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States, it is not more commentary or assessment, however well written, I need. Because how many words have we read, and listened to, and shared, that told us what many of us knew so early…
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Be Still as a Small, Warm Stone
Two days ago a woven box appeared on my table. It was a mystery, delivered by someone unknown. From it this small, round stone appeared. The stone came wrapped in red, for Christmas, and also for warmth; a small, warm stone. All through Advent I have come to prayer disposing myself to be still as…
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Longest Night ~ Tears and Blessing
Sometimes we are gathering words for a worship we will lead; sometimes we need words that are just for us. I offer these hoping that there may be a quiet word somewhere in their midst that is just for you. Call to Worship Come ~ to the One who…
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A Thousand Hosts
Today steadfastly we tie bright ribbons to our hearts so hope can find a way. We scatter folded cranes of peace each crease hard won. We are not heedless of the tremors of the world, not unafraid. not free of anger But we are a thousand, thousand hosts; compassion on the lintel The neighbour may…
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Seeing Saints
Luke 19:1-10 This day near the threshold of All Saints, I invite you into this morning’s story looking for saints. I invite you to enter holding in mind the Godly Play question: “I wonder what part of the story is about you?” I invite you to “immerse yourself in the story and identify with…
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What kind of fool are you?
Today is the first day of the week. And it is most clearly the day on which I am reminded that I am not practicing the call that whistled through my heart all those years ago; that call like spring grass, tender and possible. I am not among the people I yearn to share a…
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