The Presence in Absence
Image credit: Ascension of Christ by Eddie Guzman The absence of his presence, the presence of his absence, like a palpable thing. […]
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. [...]
Giving
I love this tiny hand touching the heart of things. I can almost imagine the pavement softening touched by these fingers. It made me think of [...]
If, but . . . and in between
Last Sunday we just touched this text and thinking of it during the week, I recalled this sermon I wrote several years ago. It asks a [...]
Stillness
WIth increasing frequency, I read about the damage of busyness, the longing for stillness, the joy of quiet . We may even sense, in the habitual extension [...]
Song of our Bodies; Site of our Blessing
The one who rises gracefully before us, in this moment, is the Shulammite women. We might listen avidly or uneasily or both for we have heard [...]
“The Frames of Your Belonging”
I love this phrase set within John O’Donohue’s larger blessing. “May you listen to your longing to be free/May the [...]
Drawn through the Prophet’s Heart
The journey to God, Sufi Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee says, begins with “the homesickness of the heart, (you can find Vaughn-Lee speaking of Sufisim here https://goldensufi.org/a_interview_st.html Perhaps [...]
“One Small Step in the Direction of Love”
As I come to the conclusion of a year in which I chose to let go of those things by which I might most [...]