At the Center of My Being – Jan. 3, 2022
Abba: I begin this day with gratitude for the gift that is hidden in my center. Remind me in the silence of surrender that I am connected by more than what keeps me apart. Help me see that at the center of all that lives is a small piece of the very beginning, which was […]
In the Beginning
In the quiet of this morning I recall the prayer and gestures of the priest as he stands ready at the lectern before reading a gospel narrative each week. I make the sign of the cross on my forehead and say, dear God, may your Word be upon my mind; and then the gesture again […]
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 […]
Help Me Listen – Apr. 14, 2021
O holy One,I hear and say so many words,yet yours is the word I need.Speak now,and help me listen,and if what I hear is silence,let it quiet me,let it disturb me,let it touch my need,let it break my pride,let it shrink my certainties,let it enlarge my wonder. –Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
