My 2013 One Word
To Listen: To live empty, open, hands up receiving To surge in breaths of God truth, To abide in God one wing covering another. To breathe out focused: the Presence of God is HERE, always Here… Always speaking, and me?…
A New Year’s Eve Reflection
We are still warmly ensconced with family here in snowy southeastern Pennsylvania. The children, their daddy and grandpa are all playing a nerf gun war outside this bedroom and I have shut the door firmly to escape the mayhem for a…
More God with us, within us Please
I schlep my ipad to the fitness center and have been biking and ellipticalling (definitely not a real word! Creative license?) to Leonard Sweet’s book, The Jesus Manifesto, and I find even after my normal 35 minutes, I don’t want to…
Finding Room for God in the Crush of Christmas
Kenosis was just like a sandbox, we decided in our theology class. I remember rubbing my forehead, trying to wrap my mind around a foreign Greek word. We searched for images we could comprehend and did what any self-respecting theology…
This Week December 14, 2012 – What Nourished Me
After school I pulled Madeline onto my lap and we sunk deep into the red bean bag chair. I memorized the smell of her hair and the beautiful dimple that comes out in her left cheek when she’s being tickled…
Annunciation by Denise Levertov
Annunciation By Denise Levertov ‘Hail, space for the uncontained God’ From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; always the tall lily. Arrived on solemn grandeur of great wings,…
When We Need Hope For the Hard Road
Promises are strewn throughout the Bible like buried jewels. Built on the scaffolding of God’s character, these promises prove firm… sure… trustworthy. Something you can build a life on. I mine them in the early morning hours, searching for hope. This…
What Inspired Me this Week
1. I was daydreaming after the kids were in bed perusing this site full of French farmhouse design eye candy. This interview of Yvonne McGrane, a business woman, mom and designer, held an interesting insight I’ve been rolling around in my mind:…
A Guest Post: Advent Waiting by Christie Purifoy
Today, I have the privilege of introducing Christie Purifoy to all of you at a thirst for God. Always painted with profound prose, Peace Like a River is where Christie shares the ups and downs of a mother’s life searching…
Mary, The Promise of God Inside
Life leapt. God kicked and what at first she had held tight within faith’s fist, now bounced, small mass of God-cells somersaulting against internal walls. Laughter must have rose up deep from that womb as God’s seed played in motion within her. Worship…