Abiding in Hope

(Night time is beautiful; a bedtime prayer for children) The moon and stars dance overhead To let us know it’s time for bed. Night holds us ...

  Luke 9:28-36 Sometimes, for a suspended moment,  light can be a physical presence, causing  eyelids to slam down like window-blinds, the d...

Sometimes, the worthiness of a weed is in the eye of the beholder. In the lat few years, some farmers, alive to the extreme stress that many...

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-25 In the woods a woodpecker has discovered a pine filled with insects like a pinata, and has already worked a pattern of...

The moon beams aloft, reclaiming her throne from the waning of rockets’ red glare;  Dogs army-crawl, dazed, from under our beds, still in sh...

  “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?”- Matthew 10:29 The Almighty, and my professor,  have enticed me to commit  to thirty minutes of d...

In the reading from Genesis this weekend ( Genesis 18:1-15) , we find Abraham to be an example of hospitality, generosity, and consideration...

In the beginning there was light.  As the first flash of light danced at creation, and the gravid Earth burst into song, as it was formed, E...

At our former home my beloved disliked our Rose of Sharon trees— he likened them to weeds. Yet I am convinced that it is always the “weeds” ...

The rogation procession begins at the parish door,  in ages past a lion leading the way, priest and people tracing and beating the parish bo...

“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” —Mahatma Gandhi 1 Peter 3:13-22 How should we respond when treated badly, even while doin...

Let me give thanks and praise to God, my Shepherd and Provider, who claims and unfailingly loves me as God’s own. I lay all my trust at the ...

Luke 24:13-24 We had hoped that he would redeem Israel, make Israel great again, a power among powers. We had hoped that he would cleanse us...

John 20:19-31 What would you have done? We all had heard Magdalene’s crazy tale, but even after all the Master’s assurances, fear seized us....

John 13:1-17, 31b-35 A table. A robe. A towel. A basin. Water. A cup of wine. A loaf of bread. Blessing. Thanksgiving. Service. Love. These ...

  Philippians 2:5-11 Empty of all privilege and power,  empty of all vanity and puffed up pride  he arrives not as a great warrior  astride ...

John 11:1-45 To the sound of distant weeping I exited: “Eleazar, Eleazar,” my sisters cried but the keen came as if from the bottom of a w...

John4: 5-42 Lenten violet and white papel picado flutter overhead, the bougainvillea blooms sprawl over the crisp white tablecloths, altars...

Ashes to tie us to dust, the alleged poverty of too brief time on Earth, but instead proclaims our kinship with the flaring symphony of star...

Exodus 24:12-18 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9 Something called the sleeper to wakefulness to stand outside in the hour before dawn; larg...