Everything Is Yours – Jan. 25, 2021
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,my memory, my understandingand my entire will,All I have and call my own. You have given all to me.To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will.Give me only your love and your grace,that is enough for me. -St. Ignatius of Loyola, The […]
Sunrise – Jan. 20, 2021
Sunrise, as you enter the houses of everyone here, find us.We’ve been crashing for days, or has it been years.Find us, beneath the shadow of this yearning mountain, crying here.We’ve been sick with sour longings, and the jangling of fears.Our spirits rise up in the dark, because they hear,Doves in cottonwoods calling forth the sun.We struggled with […]
Thresholds – Jan. 5, 2020
God of the threshold,this we pray:that what comes in enters by consent,by invitation that what passes throughcrosses over with grace,with mercy that what dwells withinresides in delight, in integrity that what goes forthemerges for peace,for blessings. –Jan Richardson, Night Visions
Keep Going – Dec. 9, 2020
I prayWhen we meet againThat the world has changedInto the world that we are imagining now togetherAnd I pray that the world has becomeThe world that we’re planting inside of ourselvesFor each otherFor our ancestorsAnd for our kids And we’re going to startThis is a rough beginningThat’s all I’ve gotIs a rough beginning to offer […]
