Steering By Stars – Mar. 29, 2023
“After so many years of trying to cobble together a way of thinking about God that makes sense so that I can safely settle down with it, it all turns to nada. There is no permanently safe place to settle. I will always be at sea, steering by stars. Yet as dark as this sounds, […]
Laysan Albatross – Mar. 22, 2023
“Every cell of an albatross is made from the sea. They trust what it gives them. But the current of the central Pacific, swirling between California and China, have been made a soup of cast-off plastic—billions of pieces that never completely decompose. Each year Midway’s albatrosses unwittingly feed five tons of these pieces to their […]
Suzanne – Sept. 19, 2022
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain only drowning men could see himHe said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free themBut he himself was broken, long before the sky would […]
The Laughter of God – Sept. 13, 2022
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance,May your gravity be lightened by grace…. As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said,May your sense of irony bring perspective. May your prayer of listening deepen […]
