Two Great Requests – Aug. 15, 2022
“Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we “love one another as I have loved you” and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.” ―Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom […]
Our Hearts Should Do This More – Mar. 16, 2022
I sit in the streets with the homeless My clothes stained with the wine From the vineyards the saints tend. Light has painted all acts the same color So I sit around and laugh all day With my friends. At night if I feel a divine loneliness I tear the […]
A Mother’s Miracle
On the day I turned sixteen, I tasted freedom for the first time. With a brand new driver’s license in my wallet, and a car key in my hand, I carefully backed out of the driveway, into the expectant world that awaited me. During those first few days of liberty, my mother told me to go visit […]
Bakerwoman God – June 16, 2021
“Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread, strong, brown Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth hands. I am bread well-kneaded. Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, put me in your own bright […]
