The One that Got Away
Credit Adrian Bar on Unsplash In these days of reaching toward one another online I am doing a lot of learning. One piece was how to [...]
A Word for the Darkness
Epiphany always begins with the wisemen. Faithful studiers of the night sky their attention is caught by a wild star,a star not on any of their star [...]
Newborn
Image by Jamie Coupaud on Unsplash In the newborn year, in the newborn decade, what is closest to me calls me to attend to what is [...]
Longest Night ~ Tears and Blessing
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Psalm 56 Sometimes we are gathering words for a [...]
Giving Thanks in the Dark
Suspended for a time on the breathless threshold, we sense the shaft of Love that honours emptiness. […]
Autumn
Holy One, May we come to this momentAs though we were a gardenAnd You the softening rain […]
Return: A Kind of Blessing
For you who are returning; turned again to what feels regular, routine, or even pressed. See, just here – droplets of the moments when your [...]
Blessing the Backpacks: blessing with bubbles
(The worship leader could say the words of the following prayer alone or it could become an echo prayer with the children and any who bring [...]
One life, one life, one life . . .
In each bruising tragedy: missing and murdered indigenous women, the thirst for drinkable water, the displacement of the Rohingya, in those attacks [...]
A Circle of Folded Stories
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 [...]