Ponderings
I am waiting
This is not a new blog. I could have written it at any point in the last 30 years. When I come across it I get in touch with the deep longing in my soul all over again. And as we live in this election year and all the sadness and anxiety I can so…
Eve’s Daughters
‘And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.’ Luke 23:48,49 Who were they, these women whose silence shouted, whose voicelessness spoke?…
Letter to a Traumatized Friend
Dear One, By the time you get this note you will be about half-way through the trauma program. You are missed, my dear friend! Something happened with my rescue puppy, Samwise, this morning that reminded me, again, of the effects of trauma. I used to put his food in a bowl under the utility sink in the…
A Poem for Christmas
Welcome Word: Speak life. Create all. Welcome Light: Shine glory. Illumine all. Welcome Flesh: Dwell full. Engrace all.
Preparing for a King
In the second week of Advent I have been pondering what it means to prepare a highway for Jesus. This Advent highway has a wonderful word picture: Every valley shall be lifted up,and every mountain and hill be made low;the uneven ground shall become level,and the rough places a plain (Isaiah 40:4). It is, first,…
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