Year: 2019

“What I’m doing is like sticking a toe in the water to check the temperature and then gently wading out, deeper and deeper, until I am comfortable and once again a participating and contributing part of a community that accepts me and whatever gifts and ministries I can bring them.  It’s not rebirth—once was enough for that—but it’s like a reception or hopeful return home.”

“As it is, in the version we have, Abram receives the promise, he sacrifices as God commanded him to do to seal the covenant, and he falls asleep into “a deep and terrifying darkness,” then suddenly there is a smoking fire pot and torch going in between the pieces of the offerings.”

“So here we are, nearly 2000 years later, in an era when fiery temperaments are rampant, when the desire to contain and limit God’s love in small self serving ways is prevalent, when humankind longs to hang on to the notion that some deserve, are in fact entitled, to be held up higher, more privileged than others.”

We seek out the company of one another, wherever we may be, because we cannot pass the Peace alone. Because the Sacraments are meant to be shared. Because love is communicated in company, with a word, or a gesture, or a look (or a pile of kittens).

“This is our camper’s prayer, be with us, Lord.”