Tag Archives: God

churches close up – October 26

10.26.2014 churches close up, fall vacant, stop trying. and where is God   away, absent, busy elsewhere, while we took too much for granted   and Jesus went to where voices and hearts are open still   while the world … Continue reading

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fears about faith – September 15

9.15.2014 fears about faith about God and life and love and death   fantasies or connections to the really real beneath the world’s veneer   fears. that it won’t be true. that it is.   and will I have lived … Continue reading

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meat and cheese, PB&J – July 31

7.31.2014 meat and cheese, PB and J menu of the morning for some, of all day   how did we let it get so far away our hearts all hidden what did they say   about lives gone unwanted for … Continue reading

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she makes me smile – July 10

7.10.2014 she makes me smile I can’t help it when she turns to me   and I see her face something opens within me and there is a grin   she makes me smile like grace from the hand of … Continue reading

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acupuncture – June 6

6.6.2014 tiny needles quiet music settle mind and body alike   nerve ending glidings unknown to western ways   cleansing and healing through pathways born   in the mind of God. —————-

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clerical collars – May 15

5.15.2014 clerical collars, signs of more. more than oneself, more than just us. more.   clerical collars, gatherers. of opinion, of grief, of accolades and commentary. of more than oneself. more than one self. ——————–

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opening to you – April 29

4.29.2014 opening to you listening for your voice   silent as rain on my windows   hushing as wind behind my eyes   out of the corners. there. —————

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when I was young – April 21

4.21.2014 when I was young I prayed for a red Columbia bicycle and for the mean kids to leave me alone.   I didn’t know that You paid attention to the big stuff and thought that maybe You didn’t care … Continue reading

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Easter Morning – April 20

Easter Morning Hallelu-jah. Hallelu-jah. Hallelu-jah. ——————

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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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