Everything Is Yours – Jan. 25, 2021
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,my memory, my understandingand my entire will,All I have and call my own. You have given all to me.To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will.Give me only your love and your grace,that is enough for me. -St. Ignatius of Loyola, The […]
On Death – Jan. 22, 2021
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?The transient pleasures as a vision seem,And yet we think the greatest pain’s to die. How strange it is that man on earth should roam,And lead a life of woe, but not forsakeHis rugged path; nor dare he […]
Public Shalom – Jan. 21, 2021
“The consequences of justice and righteousness is shalom, an enduring Sabbath of joy and well-being. But the alternative is injustice and oppression, which lead inevitably to turmoil and anxiety, with no chance of well-being… Shalom is never the private property of the few.” -Walter Brueggemann, Peace: Living Toward a Vision, pg. 18-20
Sunrise – Jan. 20, 2021
Sunrise, as you enter the houses of everyone here, find us.We’ve been crashing for days, or has it been years.Find us, beneath the shadow of this yearning mountain, crying here.We’ve been sick with sour longings, and the jangling of fears.Our spirits rise up in the dark, because they hear,Doves in cottonwoods calling forth the sun.We struggled with […]