Tag: Prayer
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The Trouble with Wanting
The trouble with wanting is I want you but you are a mystery beyond my comprehending, summons of sweet-scented blooms the bumblebee may never see nor taste. Blindly I follow after crumbs thoughtless cast upon the ground before me poor proxies they are for that in which my soul takes delights- and so I blunder on,…
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daily grind
and some days, I lift my eyes to the rafters and drift no more to give no more to take neither joy nor pain within my barely beating breast and I wonder: is this how the pearl of sand feels, as she grinds silently to nothing on the shadowed sea floor?
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what we have in common
Perhaps we grew impatient, or maybe it was nothing more than rage at the distance between what is right and what is wrong in this world God has made: the cry for justice that feels worth a damn waging war against armchair ethicists at a quiet remove; the vision of a world held in common…
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Arroyos Secos
Oh snap. I allowed myself to be drawn, like an unwitting child following the distant call of the ice cream truck, to this place I did not want to be. Every crevice of this unforgiving territory is bathed in the intimacy of familiarity: the dark, warm hollows that offer their dubious shelter and the golden…
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A Reflection for Maundy Thursday
Mark 14:17-25 When it was evening, he came with the twelve. And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.” They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, “Surely, not I?” He said to…
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A Prayer for the World in the Wake of Brussels
Holy God- We live increasingly in a world of violence, and we offer our prayers today for those in Brussels whose world has been pierced by the sword of terror. For civilians who fear the threat of bombs in public places–airports and subways, markets and malls–we pray. For the families of the dead in Brussels,…
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Ask Anything: Why Don’t Presbyterians Kneel When We Pray?
When you pray do you: -pray a prewritten prayer, like the Lord’s Prayer or Psalm 23? -did you have to learn how to pray, or did you always know? -do you follow a pattern or use a specific order? -do you say whatever is on your mind? -do you say anything? Or are you quiet?…
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On Retreat: Day Two
“Torah is acquired in the presence of community” Our mighty band of fellow travelers gathered in fellowship for a second day of study and conversation. Our task today: to gather and consider the Scriptures of Epiphany through Transfiguration. To help us do this, our facilitator, the talented Dr. Judy Siker, introduced us to the practice…
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On Retreat: Day One
“God doesn’t answer prayers; our prayers are answers to the prayer that God has already started” The alarm buzzed irritably from the window where I had left it the night prior. Morning, I thought to myself. How swiftly we are plucked from the warmth of our beds to greet the day. Earlier than I would…
Deeper in me than I 