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This is not Trump’s day

January 20, 2017
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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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Epiphany Invocation

January 7, 2017
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 O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow

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Be Still as a Small, Warm Stone

December 24, 2016
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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

December 18, 2016
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    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 Circle of Folded Stories

December 10, 2016
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In this year of Sabbath and in this time of Advent, I am so grateful for space in which to give attention to stories, their folding and unfolding.  I was recalled to this, as I am over and over, by time spent last week with a congregation looking to learn more about Governance as Spiritual…

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A Thousand Hosts

November 8, 2016
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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

October 28, 2016
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  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?

October 2, 2016
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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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You Tend Our Greening Dreams

September 21, 2016
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You Tend our Greening Dreams:   Narrative Lectionary for September 25th  All through the text for this Sunday there are dreams: dreamed and interpreted, furtive and full.  There is the hate-provoking dream of the young, insufferable Joseph.  There he rises, like a straight, sovereign sheaf of wheat and around him the brothers nod and bow.  This…

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Rising

September 10, 2016
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Today doesn’t look like this for me.  There is no great glory caught between the cupped hands of cloud and mountain.  Still, even resistant, this body recognizes those wisps rising from something hidden;  those  breaths warmly exhaled in this day’s blue moment, sighing a soft,  unavoidable grace in the sky of my heart. Image: Grand…

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Returning: A Kind of Blessing

September 3, 2016
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See,just here –droplets of the momentswhen your heart took onthe rhythm of the tidesor trailed through long, hot grasseswith cicadas’ soundsor felt the city sun,or sand For youwhose eyes were pricked with gratitudewhen touseled children slept, close at hand,and evening cooledand you went lightly. For you who are returningsee,just here,the droplets of those momentssoft and strong…

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Beginning

August 26, 2016
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 Not long ago I shared with a gathering of others a way of governance birthed out of a commitment to vulnerable practice.  I have been consciously immersed in the research of that practice for some time as I prepare to write my dissertation on its theological roots, its practices and the fullness of life it…

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