Pentecost Hearing
Our talk began simply: “What’s good about writing an IO reflection? What’s hard for you?” We laughed as common complaints came up about keeping the reflection short enough for reading on a cell-phone, and nodded over differences in how long one needed to dwell with the scripture to let a personal experience emerge. Although we […]
Language to God – Aug. 29, 2022
“What I struggle with here is the language to God, language which engages me with God, opens me to God, and emerges out of my deepest self, I believe that when it comes to this sort of language, this language to God, we are all pilgrims.” –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path (Pilgrim Press, 2000), xiv
Names and Stories
When I lived in Israel in the early 1970s, I visited a lake in the northern part of the country that Israelis call Kinneret. It is called that, I was told, because its roughly triangular shape resembles a kinnor, a certain kind of hand-held harp mentioned many times in scripture. Some linguists say this is […]
Remember – Dec. 25, 2020
Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her in a bar once in Iowa City. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night. Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form […]
