Fall in Love

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Hello again, dear reader! I hope you are well. I took a vacation from posting here, and like any good habit, it is harder to crank back up after you’ve let it drift for a while. If only bad habits would operate in the same way!  Which brings me to…

Forgiveness is a Waterfall

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Forgiveness is a Waterfall Hello, dear reader! Thank you for being here. This week I’ve been thinking about forgiveness. Asking for it is the very first thing we do in the offices of Morning and Evening Prayer, before reading the appointed Psalm(s) and long before praying for our own needs…

Things Fall Apart

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Hello, dear reader. Thank you for being here. I wrote this last week but had some trouble with my site. Fortunately or not, this post still feels relevant. Have you read When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön? My book group just read it, and it has some (maybe) counterintuitive advice…

A Silence Opens

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A Silence Opens  Hello, dear reader. Thank you for being here. This week maybe you have been involved in more conversations about racism, as I have. It is heartening to see what is being attended to in this moment. In other contexts I am moved to speak, but these days…

Juneteenth

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Love’s austere and lonely offices

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Love’s austere and lonely offices  Hello, dear reader. Thank you for being here. This week I began wondering (again) about the utility of poetry. In a time like this what we seem to need is concerted action, changes in policy and procedure, and physical acts of kindness and heroism as…

Citizens

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Hello, dear reader. I don’t have much to say today. In addition to daily prayer, I’m in a posture of listening and learning. Do you know the poet Claudia Rankine? Here is a powerful poem from the amazing 2014 book, Citizen. Please read it, and listen to her read it.…

Why We Need the Birds

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Why We Need the Birds Dear reader, thank you for being here. Today it’s difficult to process the ongoing toll of what I’m coming to think of as twin pandemics: the covid crisis and the racism it is exposing, that is still spreading among us. We must remain vigilant against…

There’s a certain Slant of light

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There’s a certain Slant of light  Hello, dear reader! Thank you for being here. I hope the spring is glorious where you are. I was tempted to skip this week’s post because we finished Romans last week, and it’s almost Memorial Day weekend (what’s a weekend anymore?), but then I…

Windows upon Windows

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Windows upon Windows Good morning, dear reader! I hope you are well. As we arrive at the end of reading Romans together, many things about our lives have been turned upside down. We started Chapter 1 back in January, in the “beforelife.” I wonder what has changed for you the…

An Unexpected Door

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An Unexpected Door  Hello, dear reader! Here we are in May, such a stunning, changeable month in New England. I hope wherever you are you can soak in a little spring beauty. I find solace in being attentive to the smallest signs of growth, and then in appreciating the lush…

Be Our Companion O Lord in the Way

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Be Our Companion O Lord in the Way Good afternoon, dear reader. This week a friend asked for poem recommendations “that might lend hope and vitality in this time of frustration and fear.” The first poem that came to mind was this one, which appeared in the New Yorker just after 9/11.…

The Higher Authority

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The Higher Authority  Good morning, dear reader. I hope you’re well. I’ve often been tempted into silence over the past many weeks, feeling that nothing I can say will hold up in the face of so much loss and suffering. Are you experiencing this? Do you feel silenced in the…

Making a Way

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Making a Way Good morning, dear reader, from the fifth or sixth week of isolation, in the first week of Eastertide. I keep coming back to this phrase from the prayer book: Lord God…You have brought us in safety to this new day. No matter what, that’s true. I’m writing this, you’re…

Binding

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Dear reader, thank you for being here, and blessings to you on Good Friday. It was very moving to watch my church’s livestream of the Maundy Thursday service last night, as our dear priest received communion for all of us, and the altar was stripped bare. Then the doors to…

Halfway to Wholeness

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Hello, dear reader! Thank you for being here. How are you holding up? As my (virtual) yoga teacher said this week, half of the things are exactly the same, but the other half are not the same at all. I’m prayerfully considering which “half” of the things in my life are congruent…

Be Still and Know that I Am God

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Radical Revision

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“For I am convinced, that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”…

The Prison Epistles

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Hello, dear reader. Thank you for being here. You lift my spirits! As a friend just wrote me, “thanks for being part of this crazy world!” Yes! We are all still part of things, and each of us has a role to play. As many of us are self-isolating, I’m…

Rest in your heart, rest in the Word

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Hello, dear reader. I’m glad you’re here. In this moment of global anxiety let’s take a moment to rest in the Word. I’ve been pondering how dangerous daily life was for Paul, and the joy he maintained in the face of every threat. His trust in God was wide and…

The Enduring Trio

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Hello again, dear reader. Today we’re reading Chapter 5 of Romans. It’s hard to improve on the note in my Life Application Study Bible (NIV) when thinking about this passage: “It helps to keep in mind the two-sided reality of the Christian life. On the one hand, we are complete…

Little Altars Everywhere

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Hello, dear reader! I’m glad you’re here. Today I’m caught by Paul’s example of Abraham, whose “faith was credited to him as righteousness.” Abraham trusted God so completely that he hiked into the wilderness and prepared an altar on which to sacrifice his own beloved son, because that’s what God…

The Psalms Are an Anchor

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Hello, dear reader! Thank you for being here in the sixth week of reading Romans together. As usual I’ll take a little detour into what jumps out at me today, and leave the deeper theology to the scholars. If you have some time, watch or listen to this amazing sermon…

The absolute pastures I am led to

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Hi! Thank you for being here. In today’s installment (Romans 2:17-3:8), Paul is still hammering the fact that we’re all sinners, and on top of that, hypocrites! We must strive for the outward and the inward both to be godly. Circumcision for example, must also be a “circumcision of the…

The Purposes of Kindness

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Hello, dear reader! Today we’re jumping off from Chapter 2 of Romans, in which we’re reminded of God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience. Paul says one of the reasons for God’s kindness is to lead us to repentance. God wants to turn our hearts toward him and away from evil. How…

So beautiful how could we not believe

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Hello again, dear reader! Thank you for being here. Today we’re still in Romans, Chapter One. Romans 1:18-32 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God…

Faith and Crumbs

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Hello again! Let’s jump into the next four verses of Romans, with a wandering into Mark as well. Romans 1:14-17 As Paul writes: 14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you…

Reading Romans Together

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Hello, dear reader. I’m glad you’re here!  This is the first of what I hope will be weekly postings of quick thoughts about the Word, and words more generally, starting with the book of Romans. It’s not my intention to do a scholarly exegesis, but rather a layperson’s look at…

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