Category: Meditation
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Our Father*
The model we have for Our Father is most often the wall that keeps us separated. For too long we have seen Our Father as my father. Until it is dropped – this human stain this confined belonging this absolute understanding – the wall will stand sturdy and tall. Only when we open to the…
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Prayer for Letting Go and Listening
Dear God: I know I am powerless to accomplish anything good without You. I know my joy will never come from that which I expect for my future, which has monopolized my mind for my entire life. And I know I cannot strike down that monopoly by myself, especially because without it, I don’t know…
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The Road to Freedom*
Pulling over to the side of the road I could feel the gravel of the shoulder spitting dirt and pebbles and dust all around – like Pigpen from the Charlie Brown cartoons. My eyes rolled in my skull remembering the twenty dollars spent washing my car just yesterday. What a waste! Yet, I knew rest…
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The New Country*
This new place – as bright as the sun shining in the clear blue skies of the sea after tumultuous storms. I am struck by the clarity – running through me in a rush even as I stand so still. It is a lot – this clarity – and also, it is a blank slate…
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With Gratitude for Psalm 119
All that God has promised to me – and still I cannot keep myself from lying to myself about Who He Is… Is the devil that powerful; or am I that weak? Only God knows the answer – the Truth that lives beyond the intelligence of my mind and this earth. “May I know You,…
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Sometimes It Takes A Storm
What do they matter – all these things acquired? Trunks in storage Boxes in the attic Bins under the bed And oh, all the toys strewn throughout the house distracting from what? My past? Our present? An unknown future? Or maybe, the Truth? In my dream, I was tossed about and pulled under the sea…
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Enough*
Will You be delighted in me when I have earned enough, lived enough, loved enough, listened enough, studied enough, bowed down enough, struggled enough, suffered enough, endured enough, cried enough, laughed enough, grown enough, learned enough, tried enough, failed enough, written enough, shared enough, forgiven enough? Will You be delighted in me then – when…
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Re-Posting for Myself
Sometimes nothing will spill onto the paper from my pen. Then, I often feel compelled to return to words I have written in the past. Today, I find comfort in this gem from February 25, 2021. I hope you don’t mind the re-post, as I needed it for myself. In Layman’s Terms* Father in Heaven,…
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In the Way
Have you ever been that one person in the grocery store who is getting in everyone else’s way? Every time you depart from an aisle, someone else is trying to enter it. Each item you want to investigate is located behind the old friends having a reunion conversation that can’t happen anywhere else. You are…