MLK Sunday: Beloved and Repentant
The Holy Spirit shows up to remind us we are children of God, beloved, no matter what. And then gives us a swift kick to keep co-creating God’s Realm of justice and love with new energy.
Epiphany: On Baby Bliss, Failure and Reconnection
This connection grows each time we dare to share our vulnerability, our messy places, our spit-up covered hair and sleep deprived frog voices, our existential fears, with each other. After all, didn’t God give us Herself in the form of a squiggly, entirely incapable of taking care of himself baby?
Awaiting the (Re)birth of Love: Persistent Love
The God of the manger takes power very, very seriously but claims the vulnerability of a newborn as more powerful than the oppression of Empire. The God whose birth is foretold by homeless, outdoor laborer shepherds, understands that the authenticity of truth spoken to power-over is the real power. The God whose Incarnation happened not in the King’s palace, or the Trump Tower of Jerusalem, but in a barn in a backwater, bread-making town embodies the reality that true power is collective and liberative and life-giving.
Awaiting the (Re)Birth of Love: Resilient Hope
The yearning, the longing, the waiting for love to be born amidst a world that seems to have gone mad…. The persistent search for hope amidst the madness and waiting… it all seems to have been written for this moment.