Practice Right Now – June 9, 2020
“We are here expressly to participate in the dismantling, tearing down, and creation of what is to be. That purpose was here for us, before we were here ourselves. We still have to try. Practice your call, whatever that is. Practice right now, today, in these particular times. Fears, pangs, and uncertainty be damned and […]
Faith Without Works – June 8, 2020
[These selections are all from Radvent.org, an Advent-season devotional “written by a collective of pastors and parents, writers and activists, organizers and students, and everyone in between… for radicals and would-be radicals. We are the people who stand in defiance of the status quo.” While it’s technically the wrong season for these, I find them […]
Entering Rest – June 5, 2020
This day is already past. I surrender it.When I think about tomorrow, I surrender it too.Keep me this night. With YouAnd in You I can trust not knowing anything.I can trust incompleteness as a way.Dark with the darkness, silent with the silence,Hep me dare to be that empty one—futureless,desireless—who breathes Your name even in sleep. […]
Cooking – June 4, 2020
I know as I create this mealthere is another cooking going on.It, too, is all motion, all process—an inner transformation.Help me to give myself awayas easily as this carrot, this new potato.I want my layers to peel away like the onion’s.I want to be as empty and cleanas the universe in a sweet green pepperwith […]