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May 2017

May 02, 2017

Living with Limits

“I don’t have all the time in the world, but I have all night.” ...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

The harrowing of hell

The harrowing of hell A harrow is a spiked implement that is drawn over ploughed...

April 14, 2017

Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross This ancient practice, observed especially on Good Friday, serves more than...

April 14, 2017

Different from all other nights

Different from all other nights Why is this night different from all other nights? This...

April 13, 2017

Too much with us

Too much with us “The world is too much with us, late and soon,

April 13, 2017

Imitation of Christ

Imitation of Christ The fifteenth-century devotional classic The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, according...

April 11, 2017

The Spirit of God came upon him . . .

And the Spirit of God came upon him . . . Biblical stories of encounters...

April 10, 2017

A multitude keeping festival

a multitude keeping festival . . . Ps. 42 I like the word festivity. It’s...

April 09, 2017

Prayer is a place

Prayer is a place “I go there all the time,” one woman said recently in...

April 08, 2017

Evils done on our behalf

Evils done on our behalf... Sometimes, though beautifully written, general confessions are not enough....

April 07, 2017

Recognition and epiphany

Recognition and epiphany Lately I keep coming back to Hopkins' lovely line, "Christ plays in ten...

April 06, 2017

Riding the wind

“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not...

April 06, 2017

Dulce et decorum est…

Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori “It is sweet and proper to die for...

April 04, 2017

Weep with those who weep

Weep with those who weep Tears come at odd times. They don’t always come at...

April 03, 2017

Suffer the children

Suffer the little children Most of us who grew up with the King James...

April 02, 2017

Could I Have a Word?

Could I have a word? Or maybe two or three? Or, if you’re feeling lavish,...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Getting the news from poems

getting the news from poems I mostly write prose these days, but now and then...

March 31, 2017

Loving Listening

loving listening The word in Latin for obey, obedire, oboedire also meant pay attention to, give ear,...

March 24, 2017

Where We Walk

Where we walk I just got back from a morning walk under skies, far from...

March 19, 2017

We’ll pass it on to you

We’ll pass it on to you . . . These words, from the musical Hamilton,...

March 18, 2017

Love in the Open Hand

Love in the open hand I remember discovering Edna St. Vincent Millay in high school,...

March 17, 2017

A Way of Knowing

A Way of Knowing I’ve been reading an engaging book on “Faith, Hospitality, and Foreign...

March 15, 2017

Like Pollen or Manna

Like pollen or manna This phrase, “like pollen or manna,” tossed off in Ellen Bass’s...

March 14, 2017

Going About our Business

Going about our business “For us, there is only the trying,” Eliot writes in “East...

March 14, 2017

Animals for their Innocence

Their humble little souls Two beautiful boys I love learned last night that their beloved...

March 14, 2017

For This We Came

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his I spent a delightful couple of...

March 11, 2017

Living by Words

by every word Ever since I first heard it in Sunday school I’ve been stirred...

March 10, 2017

Being Prepared

be prepared You never know what you’re being prepared for. I don’t remember where I first...

March 09, 2017

Unfolding

from what black wells of possibility, how a thing will unfold . . . ...

March 08, 2017

Centering First

Centering always comes first After wedging the clay, that is, And thumping it...