Falling Forward this Christmas
I gave this print as a Christmas gift to my Healing Care Group Sunday night. We sat around the kitchen table at the Cathedral’s retreat house eating a spinach pizza and looking at the drawing. We took turns remarking…
Where Do We Get More Love-Fueled Courage?
We need you fully present, fully awake. We need light-bearers, God-bearers, Kingdom-bringers, hope-servers. We are hungry for your glad tidings shouted from mountaintops, whispered into smartphones, wrapped around the shoulders of the widow sitting hands-folded in the…
Isaiah 64: 1-4 SLOW Word
Welcome dear friends! Throughout Advent we’re using scriptures with Kris Camealy’s beautiful devotional, Come Lord Jesus, in our Lectio Divina every Monday and Thursday. Get the first five days of her devotional free on her site here or buy the devotional on…
Psalm 100 SLOW Word Lectio Divina
(Remember dear ones, every Monday and Thursday find a SLOW Word Lectio Divina right here. Want it slipped into your inbox? Subscribe on the right and pass on the Wordfeast.) Sometimes we encounter a familiar chapter (like this one?) and…
Behold the Lamb of God
It’s when I show up at the Confession on Sunday morning empty handed that I know I’m in trouble. I’ve forgotten the quick cutting down, the self-pity binge, the explosions at bedtime. I’ve forgotten the pride because pride makes the…
Advent, Day 20: How to Have Beautiful Feet this Christmas
In October in Harrisburg, PA Felicia had walked the runway interceding…in their shoes. She told the horrors of the stories of the more than 20 million trafficked simply by wearing a dress. It’s a runway show called Unchained (click…
Advent, Day 19: Welcoming Him into Our Ordinary
On that first warmish day of spring, we throw all our weight against creaking sashes until the smell of moist earth fills every corner of the house. All day long moving from room to room we inhale the mixture of…
Advent, Day 16: When We Do Too Much
The Advent lectionary and my little Advent series here collided randomly this Sunday in the most satisfying way. Yesterday’s scriptures, “He shall feed his flock” was featured for the Old Testament and then were repeated by Christ to John the Baptist…
Advent, Day 15: Learning to Eat Out of the Shepherd’s Hand
They were too much, for whatever reason. They were the lambs the ewe kicked away from her warmth, milk, care. These are the bummer lambs in the shepherding tradition, shunned from mom’s circle of care, orphaned. She pushes them away,…
Advent, Day 14: When We Are Tired of Being the Walking Wounded
Isaiah 35:5&6 “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped”. “Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing …“ This short recitative…