Abiding in Hope

Today’s Theme: Solidarity Poem: A Word on Statistics Out of every hundred people those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every st...

      God of Compassion, we center ourselves in silence before you,    laying our sorrow at your feet. Walk alongside us in the days to come...

Today’s Theme: Grief Poem: Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet 10) Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for th...

Today’s Theme: Enduring Faith Poem: Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose fo...

Today’s Theme: Extravagant Gratitude Poem: Mary, of Bethany, at your feet a third time And so you come once more to Bethany, and share a mea...

Today’s Theme: Simplify Poem: Storage When I moved from one house to another there were many things I had no room for. What does one do? I r...

Today’s Theme: Hope After the Flood    Poem: After Flood Only these ravished banks Their dry wounds bared to man Sine Time once more comes s...

Today’s Theme: Bread of Life Poem: I Am the Bread of Life Where to get bread? An ever-pressing question That trembles on the lips of anxious...

Today’s Theme: Tearing Down Walls Poem: Mending Wall Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under i...

Today’s Theme: Walking on Water Poem: I Do Not Walk On Water I do not walk on water Except in winter, When ice makes the miracle more natura...

Today’s Theme: The Approach of Prayer Poem: Sonnet: Prayer Was it in Sunday school that we were taught That prayer only counted when by rote...

Today’s Theme: Prodigal Love Poem: Happiness There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes ...

Today’s Theme: Looking for Home   Poem:   Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles t...

Today’s Theme: Conversations With God Poems: God Speaks to the Soul; God Answers the Soul God Speaks to the Soul And God said to the soul: I...

Today’s Theme: Rebirth in Spring Poem: Forest Song All around I heard the whispering larches Swinging to the low-lipped wind; God, they pipe...

Today’s Theme: Desert Places Poem: Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ...

Today’s Theme: Claimed Poem: Faith Knows You Faith knows You Beloved In the way The tide knows The moon Longing for union Up and down The ra...

Today’s Theme: Night Prayer Poem: I Was Never Able to Pray Wheel me down to the shore where the lighthouse was abandoned and the moon tolls ...

Today’s Theme: Planted and Tended Poem: My Father and the Fig Tree For other fruits, my father was indifferent. He'd point at the cherry...