Good Friday is about tears. I’m not sure about the word Good. I never have been. But maybe that’s because I’m not sure about Love either. Not when it is hammered to a tree. Not when it bleeds, skin pricked and split. Messy and unexpected. Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect, he said.…
Epiphany 5A Matthew 5:13-20 A few years ago, I was on a retreat at a beach in South Carolina in late January. Close to the end of the retreat, we were hit by a significant ice storm. It was severe enough to close bridges and bring the entire area to a stand still.The beach…
Times are dark in this world for many. I see posts of despair on Facebook and have conversations face to face hearing words from hearts longing for the hope they feel has abandoned them like a beloved companion who absconded in the night. Nostalgia that paraded as something meaningful has disappointed yet again. Violence tears…
Creation Series 3: Wilderness Matthew 3:13-4:2 When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s live may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Lent 4C When I was about eleven years old, the daughter of a friend of my mother’s ran away from home. It was a typical, though heartbreaking story. Abusive older boyfriend, strained relations within the family, assorted illegal activity including drug abuse. There were months of worrying, handwringing, second guessing, anger and…
Shepherdess Writes 