United to Love: Rally Day 2018
We knew they were coming. The group of white supremacists had been issued a permit to gather in Lafayette Park, on this, the one-year anniversary of the “unite the right” event in Charlottesville. At their 2017 gathering, Heather Heyer, a counter-protester, was killed, while others were physically injured and their city was left scarred and […]
A love like no other
Sometimes there is a friend, early on, say, in high school, who writes in your yearbook. Pages and pages, continued here and then over there, with a message that defies time and space. Dispensing with the cursory, superficial gibberish, this friend heads straight for the truth with words so profound that, at 17 years old, you actually transcribe them so […]
the things we give away
You know it’s funny… The only things we have forever are the things we give away.
Don’t let me interrupt
Don’t let me interrupt. I’ll wait. When there’s a lull in the conversation, I’ll speak up. How often I patch the hole in my day, the opening in my calendar, even the moment between my bites with something to do. Something to keep my mind occupied. Something to entertain me. Or with just plain filler. […]
Lead ME not into temptation
The Lord taught us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” ~ Matthew 6:13. It’s the oddest of requests really. Why in the world would God ever lead us INTO temptation? Do we really need to request that God not? Yet, I have been feeling a bit tempted lately. For me this […]
Dear Graduates, chart your own course
Caps and gowns everywhere! Smiling faces. Proud parents. Adoring Grands and even congratulatory hugs from siblings. It’s a great occasion and we mark it with well-deserved fanfare. Pomp. and. circumstance. So many graduates! I imagine each of them bouncing on their own personalized trampolines, springing giddily into the air, paying no heed to the creaking complaints […]
Spirit of Christ, Lead Me
Let the Spirit of Christ lead me. Not, my spirit, Not, the spiritual forces, But God, Himself in human flesh. This is my role model, my driving force. My focus. Let me not be deceived by things that would distract me, tantalizing though they might be. They are empty, hollow vessels meant for other gods. […]
Who is at the door?
We endanger ourselves when we choose only what suits us and toss what doesn’t serve us. Lord, help me be one who welcomes the other way; one who engages the different approach. Cause me to open my door to accountability come /knocking/ just as I would to \confirmation\ come calling. It is by both of […]
Can we live together, the Earth and I?
From the vantage point of our Silver Line metro rail car, we traverse Tyson’s Corner, and survey the expanse. Towering glass buildings and tangled roadways, elbowing out the newly-leafed trees and occasional grass who are gamely attempting to stand their ground. “How can people not see that we are the bacteria which has infected the land?” my […]
Where do you do your best growing?
Our normal is dichotomy. We define who we are in distinction from who or what we are not. It’s the way we were born. The way we learned to discern our place in the world. I am distinct from my mother. I am one with my fingers and toes. They are me. Who is me? […]