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This Is About Poetry
This is about poetry. This is about prose. This is not about equations And this has never been about what’s only black and white. This is about moments captured in cinnamon and cayenne. This is about what is ancient. This is about what is fresh. This is not about what makes...
Touching the Hem of His Garment
Desperate. Shunned. Lonely. Long, long, long suffering. I vacillate between seeking healing one more time and believing that I shall never be healed. Why try? Why not try? Why try? Why not try? I’ve been dismissed. I’ve been given hope. I’ve grown sicker, not more healed. Now one more...
Psalm 43:3 A Reflection on Sending
Psalm 43:3 Send forth Your light and Your truth, Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, To the place where You dwell. O send forth Your Light here among darkness that so easily engulfs me. O send forth Your Truth here among too-easily believed lies. O send forth Your Light and Truth...
Spiritual Direction: An Inside View
Spiritual Dialogue Spiritual direction creates space for spiritual dialogue. As you allow time to pay attention to God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you discover there is more to the conversation about your heart than you knew was bubbling just below the surface. Together,...
Lectio Divina: New Path to Familiar Places
Dazed to Dazzling Out of Focus Familiarity breeds forgetfulness. When things feel too familiar, I cruise along on autopilot. Suddenly, I’m pulling up to the small Island branch of the library. How’d I get here? I don’t remember going past my favorite slow-down...
Answering the Question
Squirming came easy. Whether I was squished between my two younger sisters in the middle seat or stretched out on top of lumpy suitcases lining the rear compartment of the wood-paneled station wagon, finding a comfortable position required squirming creativity. * With windows rolled down...
Keeping Your O
I’m one who savors the season of Advent and Christmas. I love the quiet holiness that can accompany this season. I delight in the many hymns of Christmas. This morning, when I rolled out of bed, I was humming the tune to O Come, O Come Emmanuel. “O Come, Thou Wisdom, from on high, And...
Advent: Watching for the Incognito
Incognito Presence “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him . He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more to remain...
Soul Transformation – What Does Your Soul Love?
What happens when two unhurried people thoughtfully consider the ways of transformation? A book worth pondering comes forth. A book about soul transformation This, however, isn’t simply a book about the topic of transformation. It isn’t eight easy steps to becoming a transformed person. Rather,...
Stretched to the Shape of A Writer
I have a confession to make. I love to read. That’s probably no surprise, if you know me. But here’s the thing. Sometimes: I read about running…instead of running. I read about eating healthy…instead of eating healthy. I read about praying…instead of praying. I read about writing…instead of...
A-Mazing Daze of Play
Play: to engage in sport or recreation: FROLIC ******* Walk past any playground and you will see a choice to be made. An empty bench says, “Sit here. Observe.” An empty playground says, “Come here. Enjoy.” The choosers are easily distinguished on such grounds: onlookers and partakers. Onlookers...
Attentive
at·ten·tive –adjective \ə-ˈten-tiv\ : mindful, observant : heedful of the comfort of others: solicitious __________ As a child, summer reading was my favorite activity. Yes, I was that child. The one checking out the absolute maximum number of library books allowed. The one secretly...
