Holding His Hand – Oct. 26, 2021
Holding His hand,I relinquish my leadAllowing myself to be led. Leaving the confines of the life I have lived,I find a new world in its stead. The vision of Jesus –His Light lights our way.The Kingdom of God is at hand. I stand at the edge of His dream for meAnd suddenly I understand. —Beams of Prayer: […]
Bakerwoman God – June 16, 2021
“Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread, strong, brown Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth hands. I am bread well-kneaded. Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, put me in your own bright […]
Christ’s Hands Are Yours – Apr. 8, 2020
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours,Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ’s compassion to the world;Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now. –St. Teresa of Avila
Pandemic – Mar. 23, 2020
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when […]