What is Truth?… Amen
Amen. It is so. So be it. Assent. Truth. In this sanctuary, offering prayers, reciting creeds, listening and responding, to words which make no demands of me. They are simply true. No doubt. At the end, we agree. God and me. I say Amen. It is so. So be it. Assent. Truth. This is truth […]
What’s within your reach?
One hand or two? Why… One, please. The better to reach you. to touch, to tap, to hold, to stroke, to lift, to pull, to push, to release. Not a mark on you. No one will ever know it was me, but you. What’s within your reach?
Blest be the Tie that Binds
Yes, blest. That’s the way they spelt it in the hymnal I had extracted from its place in the next-to-last pew, at the Church of the Palms, Presbyterian. I am hidden in the back, scrunched behind a pillar in a nearly empty pew the older folks have difficulty accessing. There are a lot of older folks […]
That’s the way I love you
Evil calls to evil; it calls on itself. Good calls to good; it calls out to itself. They reside side by side; Neither will the other abide. The thing I say is not the thing I want to say… The thing I write is not the thing I want to write… The thing I do is not the thing […]
Finding Calm in Stormy Seas
“All hands on deck!” the captain hollered, as another towering wave crashed over the bow. The cabin of our barely sea-going vessel was already knee-deep with water. We were bailing as fast as we could, but the storm was beating us down. How do you make headway in a blinding rain when every wave threatens to throw you overboard? “Cap’n, […]
There’s a place for you
“That house is new, but it looks like it’s been there all along,” we observe on our way by. That lot has been vacant for some time, but now it has a house on it. And it’s a beauty! Fits right in with the other houses on the street — quiet, residential, tasteful, landscaped, cared […]
We’re made to flow downhill
We prefer to take the easy way, the smooth path of least resistance. We’re made that way. On the inside, we have particles that flow downhill electrons that take the short route circuits that choose the easy way We’re made to go with the flow, so we’ll operate smoothly. It’s by design that the easy way is the best way, […]
Made to Notice
We notice when something is changing, not when it has changed. We are made this way. To attend to the acceleration, not the constant speed To catch the approach of a predator, not the constant sway of the grass To feel the crawl of a spider, but not the constant warmth of the sun We […]
Provision, by day and by night
Lead us through our wilderness, Lord… to the land you have promised. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. The pillar of […]
