What I REALLY Think About My Husband’s Cycling

December 27, 2011

I had a friend ask me recently what I thought about my husband riding his bike so much. Then she leaned in closer and said, “I mean, what do you REALLY think.”
The assumption is that I play along with it when underneath I’m really harboring bitterness for his time on two wheels, but this is [...]

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Tethered to Hope

December 26, 2011

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, [...]

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Live Merry

December 25, 2011

May you manage to live merry, not just today, but all your days. Even the dark ones.

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Expectancy and Hearing Through The Right Lips

December 24, 2011

Come thou long expected Jesus
Born to set thy people free
From our fears and sins release us
Let us find our rest in thee.

Born our people to deliver
Born a child and yet a king
Born to reign in us forever
Now thy gracious kingdom bring

Come thou long expected Jesus
Israel’s strength and consolation
Hope of all the earth thou art
Dear desire [...]

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Calling All Mystics

December 23, 2011

“How does one get from mystic experience to an established religion? My one-word answer is: inevitably. What makes the process inevitable is that we do with our mystical experience what we do with every experience, that is, we try to understand it.”
“We need religious institutions. If they weren’t there, we would create them. Life [...]

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I Want The Poetry Wand

December 22, 2011

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The Double You

December 22, 2011

I have this piece of art that I started creating in the wee hours one morning. It’s actually one of a set of three. On this painting, in big bold letters I wrote the word “MY TRUTH.” Scrawled in pencil beside those painted words I wrote these: “Say what they will I will not lose [...]

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What Do I Do With My Word?

December 21, 2011

Let’s say you’ve picked a word for 2012. You think you have the word of all words that’s going to transform the new year. It’s taken A LOT of work to decide on that new word and then you think, “Ack! What do I do with the word now that I have it?” Here are [...]

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God Is The Monster Hiding With Me In The Closet

December 20, 2011

I read a couple real articles about messy faith this morning.
This one from Joy.
This one from Rain that led me to this one from Stacey.
It’s comforting to read about others who are standing at the intersection of all these interesting paradoxes of true faith. Faith that is allowed to say, “You know, this just isn’t [...]

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Winter Guest Post: Winter-Trust

December 15, 2011

The following is a post I wrote for the Creative Every Day blog:

Yesterday a friend of mine shared a picture of his piled books for Winter. I felt a surge of inspiration tickle my fingertips upon viewing his picture. What is it about books and Winter? What is it about gathering some [...]

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