Hear My Sorrow – Oct. 1, 2020
O God, while above this day, the heavens in your majesty chant of glory and splendor… I fashion the hand-jerk gesture, lurid epithet, and horn-blast salute on my commute.I loose the maddening shriek over unrinsed toothpaste in the sink.I mutter the predictable whine about emptying the trash.I stew in the sullen silence of a seasoned […]
I Confess – Sep. 29, 2020
I confess that I poison myself with anger, bitterness, regret,I confess that I cripple myself with excuses, complaining, procrastination.I repent.I am ready to look at the most painful parts of my life and live.I am ready to answer the hardest question— the question of whether I am willing to change.Show me.Ask me.Forgive me. Amen. —Maren Tirabassi and Joan Jordan Grant, […]
Unclean Lips – Sep. 28, 2020
Holy, holy, holy God,I am a person of unclean lips– I have said cruel words, and have left unsaid kind ones.I dwell among people of unclean lips— there are bigoted words about race, tradition, age, gender, orientation; there are gossip and slander, political deceit, false advertising, corporate manipulation, religious hypocrisy. Holy, holy, holy God,purify my words and send me, angel-driven,with your message […]
Beyond Ideas – Sep. 22, 2020
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. –Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, 13th century
