We Underestimate Your Compassion, Jesus
How we underestimate your compassion, Jesus; we are too easily convinced that you frown more than you smile, that our weakness and ignorance, our mistakes and sins, guarantee nothing but [...]
We Are The Church
We are the Church, Jesus, but sometimes we fail to believe it, and so we focus more on what divides us than on your call and the unconditional welcome that [...]
Watching
Your reign is always coming, Jesus, slipping into our lives quietly like a thief, and subverting our comfortable self-interest; and, even though we know we should be watching we miss [...]
Waiting And Watching
You call me to wait on You, Lord, but I get tired of waiting. Your answers to my prayers, Your call for me to serve You, the promise of Your [...]
Truly Blessed
You have blessed us, O God, with your Word, Creative and life-giving, Spoken through the ages, In Christ, made flesh, In our hearts known as truth; We praise you, [...]
True Whole-iness
I sometimes wonder how it makes you feel, God, when we speak of you in the hushed tones of fear, when we think of holiness as rigid rule-keeping, and harsh [...]
The Wrong Sorts Of People
Sometimes, God, It seems that you don’t care much for your reputation. Your name always seems to crop up in connection With all the wrong sorts of people: questionable people, [...]
The Tyranny Of Vengeance
Here we are again, God With all that makes us who we are, all that fills our lives; Carrying into this place of joy and freedom the burdens we just [...]
The Offer, The Longing, And The Fear
It’s a familiar call, Jesus a whisper almost unheard but persistent and unfailing “Come,” it says. “Come to me, and I will give you rest.” We long for what [...]
The Foolishness Of Faith
Some say this is a faithless world; they grieve the loss of the sacred; they speak with longing of other times when the unseen held a place of significance; and [...]