Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2012
“The practice of paying attention really does take time….Reverence requires a certain pace. It requires willingness to take detours, even side trips, which are not part of the original plan.” Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World Refreshed from a week of reading writers who illumine the sacred in the most commonplace, I was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2012
This week I am taking a contemplative writing class. It is a luxury to conflate two of my loves–writing and prayer. Anyway, I was assigned to write a letter to Annie Dillard in response to her piece, “On A Hill Far Away” from her book Teaching a Stone to Talk. Below is a copy of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2012
Do not fret–it only leads to evil.* So says the Psalm. I wonder, did the psalmist ever birth a child? I have seen mothers bury daughters-their own flesh in the ground. I have seen mothers visit sons in cells-traverse the road from silver spoon to tin cup with nary a frown? How in the world [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2012
Last Sunday I had the opportunity to offer the sermon at Grace Episcopal Church in Cullman, AL. If you would like to read the text, you may click here for a transcript of the sermon. I hope it is as meaningful for you to read as it was for me to write and share. Below are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2012
Well, I am slogging through a Clinical Pastoral Education application so that I can work for free in a hospital this summer. Can you tell I don’t have a great attitude about this? Anyway, my poor opinion of spending the summer as a volunteer chaplain-in-training is a bit mortifying to my dear, chaplain husband. In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2011
Yesterday, my beloved walked beside me in the woods. Silence, crinkling leaves underfoot, blue herons aflight. Shafts of light pierce hearts on fire. All is calm, all is bright. Amen
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2011
I bent down so the priest could lay her hands on each side of my face. “For what would you like me to pray?” She asked in a soft, soothing voice. “My back is killing me and I am just so stressed out. I’m exhausted.” I replied. It was the Monday of final’s week, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2011
A few weeks ago I told you about my experience tutoring at Little Lights in DC. I’d like to share with you a gift that was given to me from one of my students, and let you know how you could help Little Lights raise over $10,000 today. On the second Wednesday of my 6-week [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2011
Forgive me, this will be brief and possibly not well written. But I have wanted to share something with you for so long and haven’t found the time to do it well. This morning at breakfast I sat next to a Lutheran minister from India, who is living in Geneva, while working with the World [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2011
Immersed in “God” talk you would think that one would feel closer than ever to the Divine. I was warned that it might be difficult to stay connected to the Source at seminary. At first the excitement and fun of my new world fed me. But recently I have noticed my energy waning. Whether I [...]