7/10/2024

We sometimes confine God to an untouchable spiritual realm, but the realm Jesus lived in was made of blood and flesh, water and wine, dust and rain. He knew that loving one another does not always bring warm fuzzies; it sometimes it brings nails. He knew that speaking prophetic truth is not always gentle; it sometimes it brings calls for your head. To love people on the margins, to feed those who are hungry, to cry for justice might mean someone has to give up power so that others can be free, and that someone might be you or me. Faithful spirituality has physical consequences.

7/3/2024

Take no bag, no bread, no money in your belt. Take only sandals on your journey. That, and the grace of God. Except, know that you don’t take the grace of God with you, it simply comes to you and goes with you.

6/26/2024

We are in need of your touch Jesus of Nazareth
Our hearts are broken, our hearts are divided
Fill us physically and spiritually
With your presence

Necesitamos tu toque Jesús de Nazareth
Nuestros corazones están rotos y divididos
Llénanos física y espiritualmente
Con tu presencia

6/12/2024

The love of the Holy One surrounds us
when the desires of our hearts are fulfilled
and all our plans bear fruit.

6/5/2024

The Holy One is in our midst
Walking beside us in our daily living.
When we stray from our path
And try to hide from God in our shame
God calls out to us, “where are you?”

5/29/2024

Be blessed with the knowledge that the Spirit’s gifts are alive in you when you worry that you aren’t good enough.

5/21/2024

Sisters and brothers, siblings in Christ – faith language matters. The words we choose in telling the story of our faith matters and are powerful.  Will our words include? Exclude? Welcome? Or deny?  Our language tells a story about God’s love for the world. Live into the richness and depth of our faith language so that all will not only know they are welcome to the table of grace but are indeed included without question.

5/15/2024

Breathe.

I’m imagining what it was like for them to “be together in one place.” They are gathered in a house (whose house, I wonder?). The house is close enough to other houses that a crowd gathers when they hear the noise. There was a sound like a rush of violent wind. Languages broke apart. Colors seemed brighter in the light of whatever was like a tongue of fire that sat upon each of them. The sound grew and wonder seeped in through everyone witnessing this event. Everyone started talking at once and the sound got louder and louder.

5/8/2024

The fertility of this good earth bursts forth in the greening abundance of the season.

5/1/2024

New life pushes up through the muck and mud of winter. Trees and flowers unfurl their colors, and their glory is made even more delicious having been absent for months.

4/24/2024

The song of Jesus resonates deeply with any of us who know the music of grief, violence, or of being treated as an outsider. Jesus sings in solidarity with us and transforms our lonely pain into communal healing. Enter the baptismal waters together and experience the abundance of divine grace.

4/17/2024

As you walk through the dark valley, you may experience fear because even on Easter morning, the women were seized with terror.