Repentance
October 20, 2021
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To repent is in some small, frayed way to unknit the fabric in which my portrait is woven in such intricate and fascinating, colourful and false threads, pulling
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Author: Rosalind Hughes
How to cast down dragons
September 29, 2021
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Today is the Feast of All Angels, and, by name, of one of them, the Archangel Michael. Michael is not portrayed in the Bible singing
But who you say that I am?
September 8, 2021
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“Who do you say that I am?” he asks us,
and it is not enough to recognize,
to idolize,
to pay homage with forked tongue and fractured loyalties…
The rest is silence
August 18, 2021
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God is love that lifts the hairs on the back of the neck. God is the love that catches its breath with hope and anxiety and empathy. God is love, compassion that lies alongside the darkness, waiting for the world to turn. God is love, mercy that knows the shape of a broken heart and how to hold it just so, patiently and for as long as it takes for the scars to form.
Casting in
July 28, 2021
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It is not enough to cast out. She needs someone to cast in: to cast in hope, to cast in love, to cast in a spirit of peace, to see her for who she is: beloved child.
Wednesdays
July 7, 2021
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We mark out our days, commemorating this and them, and by the word of the Bible time is sanctified: three days here, forty there, seven weeks of seven, and a thousand years under God’s unblinking gaze. Sabbaths sigh, and Wednesdays teeter on the hinge of the week; we can look forward or back.
Lawn church
July 3, 2021
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a whisper of a breeze tries to
lift the cloth, as though the Holy
Spirit would scatter
our wafers like manna, grace like dew,
the sacrament of love sown upon
souls gathered on the lawn.
Stormy weather
June 16, 2021
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The clouds that run in on the wind cannot obscure God’s judgement or muffle her mercy; that the Holy Spirit dances in the tree tops, bending with them towards the earth, kissing the ground that we walk upon with grace and loving kindness.
A body of water
May 26, 2021
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As well as thirst and satisfaction, work and rest, heat and cooling, Jesus’ conversation with the woman of Samaria was about history and belonging, relationships, restoration, and the deep well of God’s love and faithfulness. Such things the lake brings to mind as the breeze moves across the waters, rippling away my reflection and replacing it with its own face.
A cautionary tale for the hopeful
May 5, 2021
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A danger recognized is not always a danger avoided, but it at least gives us half a chance to remember that our highest goal is not the pursuit of happiness but the discovery of the grace and mercy and loving-kindness, the grounding of God.
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