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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Give Up the Fight – A meditation of radical acceptance
Give up the fight For some other moment Some other life Than here, and now Give up the longing for some other world The wishing for other choices to make other songs to sing other bodies, other ages, other countries, … Continue reading
Posted in Meditations, Poetry
Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Beauty, Christopher Watkins Lamb, Delight, Forgive, Forgiveness, Gift, Music, poem, Poetry, Presence, Present, Radical Acceptance, Surrender
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Back to Life – Easter 2020
Text: Mary Oliver’s Messenger Mark’s Gospel Chapter 16 Homily Last night as I kissed my daughter’s forehead, she felt hot. In normal times I’d just think: “Teenager. Day in the sun, no big deal.” But this is not a normal time. So … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Change, Courage, Death, Easter, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Life, Rebirth, Resilience, Resurrection, Transformation
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Into the Dawning Day
This choice – this paradox of life – is at the heart of the Christian calendar this week. What is known as Holy Week. Next Sunday is Easter –which gets all the attention of course, but for me, today, a day known … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Abundance, Beauty, Christianity, Forgiveness, Fragility, Gratitude, Jesus, Journey, Lent, Loss, Love, Mortality, Palm Sunday, Presence, Sermon, Sermons, Surrender
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Another Possibility 