Through Your Eyes – Oct. 29, 2021
Oh, that I might ever know Your Presence in every face Your Pulse in every heart;That I might ever feel Your Breath in every breeze Your Touch in each rain drop;That I might ever see Your Smile in every bloom Your Might in each sunrise.And, oh, please grant That I might view Life’s beauty through […]
So Small – June 28, 2021
I am so small I can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small,but they see enormous things. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 279
Resurrection Eyes
Mary of Magdala, the first witness of the resurrection, is a compelling character of great depth in the biblical story. In recent years, there has been significant study of the fragments her gospel, written early in the 2nd century but which disappeared for over 1500 years. There is new scholarship regarding the mix-up of various […]
Here Am I – Feb. 11, 2021
Lord, here is my Bible;Here is this quiet room,Here is this quiet time,And here am I.Open my eyes; open my mind; open my heart; and speak. -From The Lion’s Book of Children’s Prayers