277: More Please
I woke up praying today, the words already on my lips. Some days are like that. The holiness of it all finds me before my feet find the...
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274: A Seat Saved For You
I cannot tell you about all the places I belong without telling you about my family’s dinner table, about the stories my father would...
Sep 2, 20221 min read
220: Breadcrumbs
Some days are breadcrumb days- the kind of days where you wake up and say, “God, please lean a little closer in a not so subtle way...
May 21, 20222 min read
208: Commute
I was riding the 1 train. I was running late for work. I was worried about the numbers- would we have enough? Would people show up? Would...
May 18, 20221 min read
207: Places I find God, an incomplete list, in no particular order:
Certainly in late night giggles- the kind that are impossible to stop, in colorful macaroons, thunderstorms and most always, in the wind....
May 18, 20221 min read
205: What It's Like to Be On a Pilgrimage
I am hungry, famished really for a brush with the Divine. I’d take a strong wind, a colorful dream or the feeling of gravity that comes...
Apr 18, 20221 min read
201: What I Forgot
Sometimes I wish I was the fig tree. No fruit here, just soaking up the sun growing roots, turning green, stretching out my branches...
Apr 11, 20221 min read
200: Glitter & Palms
Here’s the thing I love about parades- they take up space, and there is music and there is laughter and people stand on the sides and...
Dec 24, 20211 min read
177: How Does A Weary World Rejoice?
I think delayed Christmas cards count- the ones with the haphazard stamps, mailed three weeks late. I think the way you get down on all...
Nov 28, 20211 min read
169: Advent
My tradition has the gift of seasons- blocks of time that tell us that things can become new again. We can become new again. Creation...
Nov 21, 20211 min read
168: Cain and Abel
Last week a boy who was old enough to carry a gun and child enough to shoot it was found innocent. As the gavel fell God ask “Cain, where...
Oct 15, 20211 min read
160: Writer's Block
I run out of words to write, swiveling a pen in uninspired hands envious of God who flung the stars into place who pulled mountains from...
Oct 4, 20211 min read
158 : The Kingdom of God on Sixth Avenue
You should have seen the crowd that surrounded him an old man hunched over worn down like the Appalachian mountains bending over his...
Oct 2, 20211 min read
147: Describing Call
Isn't it amazing how grief and joy can braid themselves together? Like water in tide pools at the beach, the water keeps coming and the...
Oct 2, 20211 min read
139: Roller Coaster Healing
I discovered- if you are scared, or grieving, or weary of the world and the way it is, then you should ride a roller coaster. And when...
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