Fire Lilies On the great Cape of Africa, nature has the final word. We are brought back to ourselves, whether we will or no, and are...

Prayer During Earth Storm Steady me, Great Mystery, that I may fix myself, be planted in this storm. Give me some way to walk this...

A Prayer to God as Mother in Times of Peril Lord Mother, help us to sing You in the morning, in the heat of the day, and in the sunless...

Can I Get A Witness? A Parable for Our Time In Honor of John Lewis Once there was a man who owned a lantern. For a while it sat on his...

The Time for Change is Upon Us “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”_ Dr. Martin Luther King These days...

How did they do it? Those grandmothers and fathers who brought us here?

Grief meets me with the dawn. I open the door to the morning, see that the sky is obscured with clouds.

“To Everything There is a Season” After Ecclesiastes (Written for the Fourth of July, 2020) The silver cord has come undone for its...

Beautiful and Fierce Lover of souls, polish our bones and heal them, that we may walk erect and find our way.

The Perfect Gift A Conversation with My Friends “Once to every [soul] and nation comes the moment to decide.” --James Russell Lowell An...

Grace comes, gorgeous and silent working its mystery in spite of our struggle, our dread, our bewilderment, our wailing, our fear. The...

Break the Darkness Open (In Honor of George Floyd) I pray, I speak my supplication, I beseech, that we will not waste the meaning of this...

Looking For The Light A Prayer for These Dark Times Precious and Great Mystery, Here in the darkness of our own making, we are reaching...

The Gift of Air “If you surrendered to the air you could ride it.” --Toni Morrison This gift is not the gift we imagined. We are all in...

That is How the Sun Makes a Tree It is the same plan for all things living, this fall into life through fear and the dark unknowing....

Let Us Make a Giving For Those Who Are Blessed with Enough Let us give thanks for the ordinary, for the rains that clear the air, for the...

The Birch Butterfly The Birch Butterfly hibernates in the Arctic ice Completely motionless until spring thaw when it awakens. Hiding in...

Beyond the overwhelming fury of the thing, there is something about how we have refused, how we have how hardened again and again.

There is Only One Sound The storm that rages in the wind rages in your heart. There is only one sky, one tree of life. There is only one...

Singing in a Strange Land Now is the time for our breaking hearts to be moved to a place of wholeness. Now is the time to gather at the...