A Heart Journey Through Lent

Graced I prayed for openness, courage and generosity not realizing that Jesus would be the one to manifest it.   Opening his heart, the world, his body and his spirit to me in ever new ways, expanding places I never imagined could exist.   Fearlessly welcoming me to deeper intimacy disregarding when I would accept, […]

Sent Before Jesus sent us the Advocate, the Father sent the Spirit to him. While he lay lifeless in the tomb, the Spirit arrived, awakened him with love and to new life, and called him out to become the fullness of who he was created to be. The same spirit, the exact same spirit, is […]

All Wrong Every one I have ever seen is wrong. Every crucifix has Jesus clothed. Surely this is inaccurate, as sure as it is more humiliating to be naked amidst the jeers, the badgering, the outright hatred, and the violence of heart that is fueled in mobs and deeply rooted in fear. Surely he was […]

Generosity  It is dramatic to give your life for another by jumping on a grenade, pushing someone out of a bus’s path, expiring on a cross. Most times, the drama unfolds quite slowly, deliberately, over billions of moments … changing diapers, washing dishes, chauffeuring, going to work, doing without, holding a hand, cradling difficult or […]

New Moon In the darkness there is possibility… for our dreams for what we cannot imagine for what we fear for what may break us open to death, to new life In the darkness we wait… for the reassurance for the phone call for the diagnosis for the message from God In the darkness we […]