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another try (Mark 9:30-37
after reading the story to the little girl (for the 3rd time!), you tuck the covers under her chin, and watching her eyes turn into saucers at the loud...
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abc/123 (Mark 9:42)
the numbered ones come in handy, when we are trying to decide who's in/who's out, who should we reach out to, using all sorts of demographics...
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shiloh (1 Samuel 1:4-20; 2:1-10)
you wait at shiloh,where we can bring our brokenness and, with the pebbles formed from our tears, the rocks chiseled from our hardened...
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anhelo (Advent 1-C)
in the chair idly leafing through one more well-thumbed magazine, the tube slowly dripping that poison which is supposed to cure him, he...
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benedictus (Luke 1:68-79)
all it takes is a word (no - just a few letters) and we can begin to bandy about all sorts of things about this person or that, but gossips of...
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Advent 3-C
come again? if what the novelists portray, the moviemakers show, the radio hosts talk, the tv preachers yell is all true, then why...
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coming day leaving the throne in the hands of the cherubim, you choose to come and clean up the royal mess we have made of everything; from the...
View ArticleCana (John 2:1-11)
when you might prefer to do nothing, you are reminded of what you should do, soprodded, you take our tears pooled on the floors of our hearts and, with a word, they flow together into the sweet wine of...
View ArticleYour Body, LLC (1 Corinthians 12:12-31a)
we stick our tongue out of the corner of our mouths as we try to make the chart flow properly (if the vote is 'yes' then we go...
View Articlecluck, cluck (Luke 13:31-35)
surely you meant an eagle, majestic and soaring above mountaintops, with an inscrutable eye on all below; or maybe it was a stork, bringing good...
View Articleprovidence (Isaiah 55:1-9)
starting in the middle of the night, supervised only by the stars, you meet the delivery trucks, getting case after case of milk into the...
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dragging his emptied life behind, one wheel wobbling, ready to fall off at the next crack in his misery,the children trailing behind laughing and throwing derision's husks at the wastrelwondering...
View Articlebecause (John 12:1-8)
becausewe have preserved our joyin manna jars for the long winter of despair, storing them in the dark corners of our souls, we have forgotten its gritty taste;becausewe have put a tight lidon our joy,...
View Articlejust suppose
what if the homeless are right, that affordable housing for everyone is a possibility and not a problem; what if the poor are telling the truth, that we silence their voices, stepping right past them...
View Articledoubt-less
conjoined at that new birth you spoke of just before dawn broke, my lifelong companion promised never to leave me stranded, especially as i sought to follow down those mystery-filled paths you...
View Articlemeanwhile (Easter 3-C)
we are still struggling to come up with ways to rationally, carefully, all-so-theologically explain just what happened a couple of weeks...
View ArticleThe Lord is (Psalm 23)
The Lord is a first responder who runs towards the blast not away from it;the Lord is a trauma nurse who is in her car in the parking lot ready to go home after her shift, but goes back...
View Articlemarching orders (John 13:31-35)
i could step over the homeless woman sleeping on the sidewalk, or i could lift her to her feet, embracing her as my sister,...
View Articlealmost (Easter 6-C)
it almost didn't happen: every door was slammed in our faces, every road became more and more potholed, the shadows chased us down...
View Articlemaybe (John 17:21)
we would be one if that place across the street would stop braggin' about all its missions; if those big box entertainmentplexs would realize how serious worship...
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