Send Me Tough Angels – Mar. 6, 2023

“I am not asking youto take this wilderness from me,to remove this place of starknesswhere I come to knowthe wildness within me… But send metough angels,sweet wine,strong bread:just enough.” –Jan Richardson, excerpt from “Desert Prayer“, In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season (The Pilgrim Press, 2000), p. 54

At the Hinge – Oct. 17, 2022

You brood in the night in its fearfulness,You dawn the day in its energy,    You move at the edge of night          into the margin of day.You take the feeble night and give us strong day,    You take our fatigue and bestow courage,    You take our drowsy reluctance and fashion full-blooded zeal.What shall we say?    You, […]

Send Me Tough Angels – Sept. 2, 2022

I am not asking youto take this wilderness from me,to remove this place of darknesswhere I come to knowthe wildness within me,… But send metough angels,sweet wine,strong bread:just enough. –Jan Richardson, excerpt from “Desert Prayer“, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 54

Promise – June 17, 2022

“Your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.” –Isaiah 58:10b-11