How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? Psalm 137:4 We have lived in this strange world of COVID19 for a year now and I have come to a new appreciation of what it meant for Israel to be taken to Babylon. While, like the...

Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? Isaiah 43: 18-19 I was annoyed at the unpleasant conditions when I left the Ash Wednesday...

“In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow….” --Christina Rosetti The seasons change. The sunlit warmth of green trees gives way...

“Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And...

Blessing the Dust— A Blessing for Ash Wednesday All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the...

How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? Psalm 137:4 We are in a COVID wilderness. Wilderness isolates, disorients. It can be a time of struggle, of waiting, of longing, of lament. And when it’s over, you are in a whole new...

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make God’s face to shine upon us, that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the people praise you, Oh God; let all the peoples praise you. Let the nations...

If you could see the journey whole You might never undertake it; Might never dare the first step that propels you from the place you have known toward the place you know not. Call it one of the mercies Of the road; that we see...

“In the time of Herod . . . wise men came from the East to Jerusalem, asking “Where is the child?” Matthew 2:1-18 Epiphany! January 6, 2021, is a day that will live in history in the United States and in the world.  As we move...

When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place...