How often do we assume things will take care of themselves only to find what we had been hoping for lying out back in the dumpster? And then a teacher never met before steps through the narrow door of our very lives and introduces herself with intimacies and challenges taking our breath away to some other land. We try to explain the essence turning us into the separate and excluded. We look for the reconciliation including oneness without becoming sameness. We open our mouths to speak in parables finding that once again we can drink abundantly from the deep wilderness.
Monthly Archives: October 2022
“Let us also lay aside every weight…that clings so closely.” – Hebrews 12:1
God who knows the weight of the universe, driving down the frenzied highway of life we glance and see the future in our rear-view mirrors holding a sign reading, "The end is near." We wonder what strange powers order letters into these particular words. What message attempts to come to life and be declared? Are we missing something important, something everyone else but us knows? If we are the last to hear and to understand will that endanger the lives of our loved ones? Our questions cling to our bodies and weigh us down. Give us strength to gently shudder them to the ground so that on this day and in this hour and at this time we can breathe and get on with living. Amen.
Patient Love
Proper maintenance of patience lies in wait around the next corner. Go. Carefully. Stepping as if with the next blink of your eye you will miss everything. Be. Wonderfully. Do not worry. You have left the monsters to storm out of the closet into thin air. Love. Abundantly. Let others be impatient wondering where your love will be given next.
Leaving Weekends
People stand as the sweetness slowly evaporates and another life begins to step out of themselves. People wander through twisted wreckage along roadsides following accidents numb with shock at the fragility of life. Is it any wonder we leave weekends behind and follow death with tears beginning to fall down our faces?
Stranger Still
Be thankful for strange communities of strange persons doing strange things at strange hours.
What Is at Risk?
Begin with the question, What did you come here for? which is really another way of asking, Why take your next breath? Then slowly, as if all of life depends upon how you unfold the tapestry of life, ask, What is at risk to live?
“…but all who humble themselves will be exalted.” – Luke 18:14
God of the Pedestaled and of the lowly base, in the midst of the upright and tumbled we strive to climb, we yearn to settle down, seeking a bit of fortune and some fame, deliver us from those who only clamber noisefully upward to the heavens of their own making while stepping, worse eliminating, the ones who are happy with step-by-step. Amen.
Skeleton key
I found the skeleton key to reality displayed on the lower level of an antique store tucked away in a dusty corner. There was no price tag on the key, only a note scribbled in a fiendish hand saying, Touch if you must. Use sparingly. Good luck. I offered one dollar for the key at checkout and the attendant smiled as if they knew something which I did not know. I now keep the key on my key chain hoping to come across the door with a mysterious lock waiting for fantasy to end and something to begin.
Outside
How many times will I find myself outside the door listening on the wind as songs and prayers are lifted up within?
Paradox Happens
Do not retreat to the simple and to the blockish. Those dances have already been danced. Find your repose of spirit hiding behind the garage where weeds have grown up for years. Turn to the setting sun and then to the rising moon crying aloud from your soul, "Paradox happens." Then you will not have to worry at what the morning brings after another restless night of being awakened.
A Thread You Follow 