A blessed and happy Easter to you all. Thanks for listening and reading. I hope you all have a joyous and restful day with just those closest to you. Today I will offer a special prayer for all those who are alone and all those who have to work to keep up safe and protected. God bless you all. You are miracles. …
Category: Poetry
Greetings, friends and readers. Today I offer you four resources for prayer and reflection on this Good Friday. A Blessed Triduum and Happy Easter to you all! …
An image and memory from a recent walk, a poem of reflection and shadow for a mid-winter day... Walking through the woods near the lake at the end of a warm winter’s day the sun so near the horizon that it sends its golden carpet unfurling recklessly across the earth, I catch myself walking beside me. …
Sometimes, the quiet we seek is not mere silence. Rather, it is silence enough to hear a whisper, the voice of God calling out to us in the sounds of the earth. For this sunny, warming Sunday morning, I offer a poem about what we can hear if we dare silence ourselves. …
In the “music” of this all-to-hard-to-find silence, I began to feel myself drawn in the direction of the master composer and musician, the One who brings all to life, throws beauty over the world like a prayer shawl, and invites us all to “waste time with him” every once in a while. …
I stand at the edge of the world Sea and sand swirling ‘round my feet Anchored by the weight of the pulling and swelling Facing outward, toward a monochrome horizon Ocean and sky barely distinguishable one from the other A landscape that could have been sketched by a No. 2 pencil. …
So much of prayer, like so much of the creative process, is in fact about waiting. But it is not a passive waiting as much as it is a time of expectation that something will happen, a hidden promise that revelation or inspiration will come if we leave ourselves open to that secret and mystical movement of God in our lives. …
Asking “what if” is one of the most creative and contemplative questions we can ask ourselves. How many books, poems, paintings, songs, plays or other creative works have come to life because the artist dared to ask, “what if?” …
So often we don’t act because we don’t think we make a difference, as if one voice doesn’t matter, as if the buzz that comes off of our lives is insignificant. But that mindset negates the power of community — of people who put their heads down and work and get the job done, of singers who lift one voice and form a chorus, of worshippers who gather around a common table and form one body in Christ. That’s the …
A Light in Darkness A Christmas Villanelle A light in darkness fights off the cold thrust into the world yet of its own making. The new life is fragile but the message is bold. A gentle king, as the prophets foretold, stirs in the straw and yawns in his waking. A light in darkness fights off the cold. A star from the East beckons prophecies old, the expanse between heaven and Earth is breaking. The new life is fragile but …