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Teaching is the closest I get to extroversion, which explains why I (a fierce introvert) bottom out after every class. When it’s going well I have a sense of flow. Connected to the materials I’m presenting, I start to scat a little like a jazz singer,...
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Photo Source: Picture from: B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) O that you would tear open the heavens and come down . . . Isaiah 64:1 Some mornings the mountains disappear completely, a great wall of white cutting the distance between presence and...
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This is not my laundry pile. But it could be . . . if you multiplied what’s here times three. Her house wasn’t just small, it was tiny. The shower was quirky and a litter box sat behind a curtain in the bathroom. The kitchen wasn’t much more...
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You hollow us out, God, so that we may carry you, and you endlessly fill us only to be emptied again. Make smooth our inward spaces and sturdy, that we may hold you with less resistance and bear you with deeper grace. – Jan Richardson ...
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The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said,...
