Turning Into Something – May 14, 2019
The light burns upward, it thickens and settles over the fields… Even before the sun itself hangs, disattached, in the blue air, I am touched everywhere by its ocean of yellow waves…. And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire— clearly I’m not needed, […]
My Need – May 13, 2019
Lord God, mercy is in your hands, pour me a little. And tenderness, too. My need is great. Beauty walks so freely and with such gentleness. Impatience puts a halter on my face and I run away over the green fields wanting your voice, your tenderness, but having to do with only the sweet grasses […]
A Gift – May 10, 2019
Just when you seem to yourselfnothing but a flimsy webof questions, you are giventhe questions of others to holdin the emptiness of your hands,songbird eggs that can still hatchif you keep them warm,butterflies opening and closing themselvesin your cupped palms, trusting you not to injuretheir scintillant fur, their dust.You are given the questions of othersas […]
No One a Stranger- May 9, 2019
“We hunger to be known and understood. We hunger to be loved. We hunger to be at peace inside our own skins. We hunger not just to be fed these things but, often without realizing it, we hunger to feed others these things because they too are starving for them. We hunger not just to […]