When God Comes Down (Advent Week One)

This Advent season I’m excited to be joining John D. Blase and Win Collier in writing weekly reflections based on a passage from each week’s lectionary texts.  Every Monday we’ll each be posting our own take on the passage at hand and...

Three Days (a poem)

(I recently spent six days inpatient in a local Behavioral Health unit due to the onset of severe and debilitating panic attacks.  I continue to work now, on the other side of that darkness, to process the experience, to understand its place in my story.  To...

Silence (of headaches, libraries and boats)

 (one of the reading rooms at Dickinson College Library) Today I’m re-posting this piece from the “archives” which was written back in 2012, right when I first began blogging.  The twins were not quite one then and my older two were four...

How it Has Always Been

The vicar general, shying away from ‘paganism’ hangs back and sits under a tree reading the guidebook.  I am able to approach the Buddhas barefoot and undisturbed, my feet in wet grass, wet sand. – Thomas Merton describing his visit to the sleeping Budhas in the...

God Sleeps (a poem)

 (Storm Sleeper by Glen Strock) God sleeps, yes, but not like we do.  God sleeps like the rich, dark, patient earth surrounding the yearning seed. God sleeps, yes, but not like we do. God sleeps like a mountain tall, majestic, home to streams that run,...
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