Night Surrender to Praise at Dawn – Nov. 16, 2021
“In the middle of the night I hold hands with trust and surrender to the One who sees without a light… My prayer travels deep into my soul space, into the essence of my being. Rising from sleep, I raise high the chalice of my life. Dressed in robes of joyful anticipation, I enter this […]
Blind Hope
Expectancy and joy filled my heart as I arrived at Dayspring Silent Retreat Center to lead our first in-person open retreat since the pandemic closed our doors. The theme was “seeding hope in transition,” a theme that fired my prayer for a long time preceding this October weekend. What I quickly realized at the start […]
The Jesus We Have
“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”* When I read that question, I am filled with tenderness towards my past self, a self so broken-hearted that I was contemplating walking away from Jesus. Like the followers in John’s gospel, I […]
A Stormy Season
Recently, I heard a group of liturgical scholars refer to these long months of pandemic as “Covidtide,” almost as if it were an official season of the church year. Unlike the joyful twelve-day period of Christmastide, which leads to the celebration of the unveiling Christ’s glory at Epiphany, the season of Covidtide has been marked […]
