Open It Wide – Apr. 19, 2021
Enclosing the field within boundssets it apart from the boundlessof which it was, and is, a part,and places it within care.The bounds of the field bindthe mind to it. A brideadorned, the field now wearsthe green veil of a season’sabounding. Open the gate!Open it wide, that timeand hunger may come in. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “IX” […]
Breathe Into Me – Apr. 16, 2021
O God, empty me of angry judgmentsand aching disappointments,and anxious trying,and breath into mesomething like quietness and confidence,that the lion and the lamb in memay lie down togetherand be led by a trustas straightforward as a little child. Catch my pride and doubt off guardthat, at least for the moment,I may sense your presenceand your […]
Help Me Listen – Apr. 14, 2021
O holy One,I hear and say so many words,yet yours is the word I need.Speak now,and help me listen,and if what I hear is silence,let it quiet me,let it disturb me,let it touch my need,let it break my pride,let it shrink my certainties,let it enlarge my wonder. –Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
Guide Me into an Unclenched Moment – Apr. 12, 2021
Guide me,Holy One,into an unclenched moment,a deep breath,a letting go of heavy expectancies,of shriveling anxieties,of dead certainties,that, softened by the silence,surrounded by the light,and open to the mystery,I may be found by wholeness,upheld by the unfathomable,entranced by the simple,and filled with the joythat is you. –Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle (San […]
