The Life That Ignores Limits
It hides in every corner, it crosses every boundary; Your life, O God, ignores limits. We know it in the safe ones we love and enjoy; but, if we [...]
The Baptisms We Need
In the face of all that this world has become and endures: the death and destruction, the dirt and disfigurement, the division and disinterest, We need a baptism that will [...]
That Life Would Teach Us
God, life – your life – is so freely and abundantly available, it pulses in all creation, and in every human soul. Yet we have allowed ourselves to be seduced [...]
Rhythms Of Life
While around us the song of fear calls us to march to the tune of self-protection, We choose to dance to the rhythms of life; While around us the [...]
Putting Faith In Goodness
In the darkest night, light radiates; In the driest wilderness, streams flow; In the most disorienting confusion, truth whispers; In the most turbulent storms, peace endures; In the shadow of [...]
Overwhelming The Weeds
What a mixed bunch we are, Jesus, and what a tortoise-shell world we live in; Light ands shadow, grace and judgement, goodness and sin side by side in each of [...]
No Dying Today
You keep talking about dying, Jesus; about how life is found not by white-knuckled clinging; but by a prodigal losing. We nod and smile, and ponder the deep significance [...]
Invincible Life
Though it may seem dark, though it may feel cold, though death and evil may parade their influence wherever we may look, Beneath it all, invincible and undefeated, subversive and [...]
In Praise Of Small Things
We love large things, God; Grand entrances, Huge fanfares, Big events, Giant heroes and heroines Yet somehow, size doesn't always translate into meaningful, transforming life. And it seems, God, [...]
How Are We To Respond?
Lord, how are we to respond to this day? When tombs do not stay sealed; when dead and immobile bodies walk into the daylight; and people who were gone are [...]