You Can’t Go Home Again – Feb. 27, 2023
“Home is seldom where we think it is. Perhaps we are always leaving Eden from the moment we emerge from our mother’s body, the first day at kindergarten, through the storms of adolescence right down to the moment when we draw our last breath.” –Margaret Guenther, Walking Home: From Eden to Emmaus (Morehouse Publishing, 2011), p. 8
Lake Trout Waits – Dec. 2, 2022
“When the female swam away and resumed her solitary lake wandering, she left behind thousands of fertile eggs, fallen from her body into crevices between the cobbles. It’s a kind of faith this shining fish practices, returning, perhaps from a vast distance, to plant life in the place where she came to life. It’s faith […]
Seen
I saw a mother breastfeeding on the train. She covered herself as the child took what she was freely giving. A sacred sharing. Her tilted downward gaze, the shape of her eyes, the curl of her lips, glowed as if transfigured. Time stopped for one eternal moment, and on that specific day, in that specific place, I […]
You Preside – Oct. 21, 2022
You preside over all our comings and goings, all our wealth and all our poverty, all our sickness and all our health, all our despair and all our hope, all our living and all our dying. And we are grateful. You are God of all of our impossibilities. You have presided over the emancipations and […]
