Tag Archives: Bible

tuesday group – May 23

5.23.2017 heads around the table some believe others say not   yet all listening and wrestling   with God Jesus each other and themselves   and all stepping up to try to be good guys   like Jesus would’ve wanted. … Continue reading

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Rizpah – May 24

Rizpah sat with her sons dangling   waving off the birds of prey.   God did not demand this she knew.   Her perseverance opened David’s eyes. =========================

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grown men with bibles – January 12

1.12.2106 grown men with bibles   wrestle with whether god is needed.   and yet there they are   working with the word. ————–                                 … Continue reading

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night signs – September 27

9.27.2015 the moon turns bloody red above our back deck   and my wife and I hold each other breathing in the sight.   we want to be in that number when the sun refuse to shine. ————————

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voices in a chapel – April 2

4.2.2015 voices in a chapel not private nor hushed.   women speaking of ancestors neither private nor hushed. ———————

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Gamaliel – January 29

1.29.2015 a bleak landscape that has left behind its faith   in the guise of social experiment.   no one recalls Gamaliel’s test   especially when we’re failing it. ——————-

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Lent Prayer 34 – April 7

Lent Prayer 34 quiet. night. silence moving about while our minds weave in and out, dreaming our ways into tastes of something we cannot express.   you come to us in dreams.   of wheat stalks, of angels and ladders … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 27 – March 31

Lent Prayer 27 our families open us to joy, sorrow, pain and laughter like Mary and Joseph Abraham and Sarah we try to make a way following your star ———————–

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