Unknowing is such a hard place to be.
I want certainty and clarity
or at least directional signs
to prove I am right on track
leaving no room for doubt.
There is discomfort
in unknowing.
It is here
I find
grace.

EPIPHANY
January 30, 2018

There are times when my energy is low
and I have no creativity.
Nothing excites me or captures
my attention to draw me
out of my fallowness.
Yet resting the soul
feeds and creates
a time of
renewed
growth.

EPIPHANY
January 29, 2018

A
rainy
day, snuggled
on the sofa
with a fleece blanket
and a puppy, whose shape
and color remind me of
a cinnamon roll as she sleeps
curled upon my lap.   The work can wait.
This sweet quiet time is to be savored.

EPIPHANY
January 28, 2018

As I age, I feel myself pulling back
the world feels less familiar to me
change is happening so quickly
that the past seems like a blur,
the pace of life so fast
the future is here
without warning.
What if time
could stand
still?

EPIPHANY
January 27, 2018

Grace
allows
me to see
beyond myself
to things which I have
overlooked or noticed
only peripherally.
I see yet I am truly blind.
Please open my eyes Holy Spirit
so that I may embrace all you reveal.

EPIPHANY
January 26, 2018

Words
imbue
great power.
Our liturgy
reveals the passion
of the ancients in
its cadence, linking me to
the roots of my faith in a way
contemporary language cannot,
a worthy pilgrimage via the past.

EPIPHANY
January 25, 2018

If every creature is a word of God,
a living alphabet of God’s grace,
then all of creation becomes
a vessel of the divine
brimming with love to share.
This language of love
is God’s way of
revealing
himself
now.

EPIPHANY
January 24, 2018

When
I sit
at my desk,
its smooth curved legs
and rich wooden grain,
I sit for hours working
without moving from my chair.
Time disappears as I get lost
in a myriad of daily tasks.
It is my kingdom and from it, I rule.

EPIPHANY
January 23, 2018

Too
often
we assign
extreme value
to things that we own.
They are but shadows of
relationships we treasure.
When we no longer possess them,
we still have the memories they hold
without the clutter they once occupied.

EPIPHANY
January 22, 2018