A Journey from Separation to Community Lent is a journey.Lent is a journey from separation to connection and life.The steps are reflection and lament, confession and celebration. There’s letting go and taking in.This is the journey we have to take for the sake of our world, God’s good Creation.We take… Read More »Ash Wednesday – For the Love of Creation
(as world leaders gather at the Glasgow Climate Summit) Nations are gathering again. And in so doing, rekindle the light of hope for our world. On my cynical days, I say, “Well, here we go again!” Another climate summit. This time it’s the UN Climate Summit – held in Glasgow… Read More »Ritual for Leadership and Action
I may not know a lot of things, but I do know that Christmas is about something truly grand, and that it fights against all that would tear creation apart. Christmas Eve deals with the local congregation, but also the family of all Creation. It deals with the personal and… Read More »Christmas Eve in the Family of Creation
We do yearn so fiercely for peace, for justice, for healing of creation, for healing of our lives. We do yearn so fiercely for restoration of all creation, for joy, for a new world to be born. Advent is a time of holding on, in the midst of yearning, in… Read More »Advent for a New Creation
Come, thou unexpected Jesus!Thought you’d be so meek and mild.Never causing any trouble.Nope! That’s not the Holy Child! Although a savior for Israel was expected and hoped for, Jesus was, in a very real sense, unexpected. He did what proper society did not expect him to do – he ate… Read More »Come, Thou Unexpected Jesus
A whole new world may yet be born… God, we need to hear those words! And believe them! We live in such dire times – and it’s been hard and excruciating for so many people for decades and centuries, too, not just in recent times. We have always lived in… Read More »We Will Not Keep From Singing
I can’t say this enough – we are connected to each other! Down to our very cells, to our very DNA – we are created for connection, for relationship. We often forget this. God calls us again and again to remember that we are one, that we are connected to… Read More »Creation Will Dance
Nameless OneGentle breezeA mantle wrapped around my shoulders The embrace of God can take you by surprise, and can be so gentle. And yet, deep down, you know there is something more to the embrace, that there is a calling, something you need to do and be. This was the… Read More »Nameless One
Don’t you just wish God would simply say to you, “Here – this is what you’ve got to do”? Sometimes I wish for that – even though I’m not sure I really mean it. But wouldn’t it be nice to simply have someone (preferably holy and good) tell you what… Read More »Thanks, I Think
At first glance, “we are to God as a wave is to the sea” seems to dismiss us, as nothing more than a small blob of water in a vast ocean, of no importance at all. But wait! Even that small blob of water is an integral part of the… Read More »Waves