02912 – The Joy of Making Music

Once you've sung in a choir, or played in a band or orchestra, or played in any music ensemble, you're never the same again. Your ears, your eyes, and your heart are opened up in ways not possible by any other means. Music feeds us, it nourishes us, and it brings us...

read more

02627 – The Thing Is

The Thing Isto love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills...

read more

02368 – God Just Wants Us Home.

The beauty of Christian spirituality is that the God we are in relationship with is for us in Christ. Like the father in the prodigal son story, God is waiting with his eyes looking for us in the distance. He is waiting to embrace us. This image might take some...

read more

02363 – For the 6th Day of Christmas

I make an act of faith toward all mankind, Where doubts would linger and suspicions brood.I make an act of joy toward all sad hearts, Where laughter pales and tears abound.I make an act of strength toward feeble things, Where life grows dim and death draws near.I make...

read more

02042 – Becoming Real

Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand....

read more