7/31/2024

Give us the best attributes of dogs: more loving, more loyal, more obedient to your Word. Let our pride, unkindness, self-indulgence and self-importance melt with the summer sun. Make us light for the world. And grant us your peace. Amen

7/24/2024

Wade in the water. Wade in the water children.

7/17/2024

May your faith in the Lord Jesus be a guiding light in the darkest of times, a steady anchor in life’s storms, and a fountain of hope that never runs dry. May it strengthen you in times of weakness, uplift you in moments of despair, and lead you when the way is not clear. May your faith in the Lord Jesus be a source of joy, peace, and boundless blessings, today and always. Amen.

7/10/2024

We sometimes confine God to an untouchable spiritual realm, but the realm Jesus lived in was made of blood and flesh, water and wine, dust and rain. He knew that loving one another does not always bring warm fuzzies; it sometimes it brings nails. He knew that speaking prophetic truth is not always gentle; it sometimes it brings calls for your head. To love people on the margins, to feed those who are hungry, to cry for justice might mean someone has to give up power so that others can be free, and that someone might be you or me. Faithful spirituality has physical consequences.

7/3/2024

Take no bag, no bread, no money in your belt. Take only sandals on your journey. That, and the grace of God. Except, know that you don’t take the grace of God with you, it simply comes to you and goes with you.

6/26/2024

We are in need of your touch Jesus of Nazareth
Our hearts are broken, our hearts are divided
Fill us physically and spiritually
With your presence

Necesitamos tu toque Jesús de Nazareth
Nuestros corazones están rotos y divididos
Llénanos física y espiritualmente
Con tu presencia

6/12/2024

The love of the Holy One surrounds us
when the desires of our hearts are fulfilled
and all our plans bear fruit.

6/5/2024

The Holy One is in our midst
Walking beside us in our daily living.
When we stray from our path
And try to hide from God in our shame
God calls out to us, “where are you?”

5/29/2024

Be blessed with the knowledge that the Spirit’s gifts are alive in you when you worry that you aren’t good enough.

5/21/2024

Sisters and brothers, siblings in Christ – faith language matters. The words we choose in telling the story of our faith matters and are powerful.  Will our words include? Exclude? Welcome? Or deny?  Our language tells a story about God’s love for the world. Live into the richness and depth of our faith language so that all will not only know they are welcome to the table of grace but are indeed included without question.

5/15/2024

Breathe.

I’m imagining what it was like for them to “be together in one place.” They are gathered in a house (whose house, I wonder?). The house is close enough to other houses that a crowd gathers when they hear the noise. There was a sound like a rush of violent wind. Languages broke apart. Colors seemed brighter in the light of whatever was like a tongue of fire that sat upon each of them. The sound grew and wonder seeped in through everyone witnessing this event. Everyone started talking at once and the sound got louder and louder.

5/8/2024

The fertility of this good earth bursts forth in the greening abundance of the season.