I dreamt of my father the night he died. Then for a few years, he’d be there in my sleep. Not directly, but at my side, or sitting nearby The way the closest...
Poetry
On their walls Jonah emerges from the whale after three days: this sea scene—not the cross— is the sign of the Resurrection. The three Wise Men— first Gentiles...
When Jesus was condemned he took up his cross but then fell. His mother helped him up as did another, who wiped his face, but still he fell again. After...
As we step over stones,weaving like the roots of olive trees along the misty hillside,I slip on a glimmer of sun on slick rock. Peter chokes down a snortbut...
1He loads fresh water,then he packs the summer fruits,salt fishes, and drybread.He shrouds his knife;it hangs, hidden in lambskinsofter than an infant’s gaze...
We are flesh made for water, bone and soul. Our thirst cries out, gritty voices longing for still waters, the promise of rescue. Delivering the remnant from...
eating disease to be one with the world to live as fully as possible in awareness of all of it Licking wounds You get used to it Drinking the water at the...
“At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and there, lying at his feet, was a woman!” (Ruth 3:8) You went to him in the night. Did you rehearse it...
“Snake venom is used to cure snakebites!” —Tehching Hsieh First. Note the pattern of all growing things. Each has an elegant unconsciousness calling that being...
