Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 4
When I was a young mom, I used to read my children the book “I’ll Love You Forever – I’ll Love You for Always” by Robert Munsch. It illustrates the life of parent and child and the cycle of life, and how we live out God’s love....
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 2
Spirit paints, Drawing shapes of flowing rivers, Mountain gorges lined with snow and eagles high, Cradled near the edge of the sky. Earth, Creating landscapes in my vision; Seasons defining the flow that pulls me forward into the sumac running wild in the ditches, The...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 7: Psalm 27
Reflection on Psalm 27Oh merciful God, my light and my love, in you I’ve found my home; the garden of my nights. A fortress strong, walls lined with fragrance sweet; a harmony released.Heart to heart, like a prayer, draw me in.One thing I ask my Lord, to behold...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 6: Psalm 66
Reflection on Psalm 104 It is the morning light that turns my face towards yours, oh beautiful Creator God. The birds, their wings unfolding from nightly dreams, clouds centering, shades of light blue and water colored skies line the edge of my window and within this...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 5: Psalm 77
Oh Holy Heartache,What moves this blackness through me like a moonless night? I cannot rest. These cries within me groan from the very marrow of my bone and scrape the bottom of the earth – do you not know me?Oh Holy Heartache,Give me the courage to keep...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, General, Part 4: Psalm 137
This is a Psalm of disorientation and expresses the pain, the searaching, the questioning that is felt at times of deep loss. An honest expression of our humanity and the desire to be reconnected with God.This Pit Has No River This pit has no river. It’s...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 3: Psalm 112
Is God visibly active in the world? Or did God set things in motion, winding up the clock and letting it go? Small group discussion tonight centered around the topic, “God is in the Neighborhood.” As one of our members walked up to our front door, she...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 2: Psalm 119
What joy is Your Holy Mystery that fills these days. To be bathed in the sacredness of all things visible and invisible. It was the exquisite risk you taught me. The wild abandonment that left me weak, to let go…and to let go. To lean into all that I could have...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 1: Psalm 8
A Reflection on Psalm 104 My daughter and I recently returned from a ten day road trip to the Wild Goose Festival in Shakori Hills, North Carolina. Twenty hours through seven states. The curving landscapes with shades of color hitting morning, noon and evening light...
