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This is What it Means

To acknowledge the wound and all its pain, to turn and hand it over infection and all to the pierced hands reaching out to me, to let go, relinquish, give up all ownership along with every need to even up the score, this is what it means to forgive. And if some fungal spore gotContinue reading “This is What it Means”

When the Heap is Swept Clean

It’s a garbage heap grown mountain high: insults hurled in public spaces, grudges fondled and fermented, bubbling silently and waiting to ignite a devastating fire. Our blindness to our faults can only breed catastrophe. But YHWH, you have told us: “You can push back mountains! You can walk out on waves so high that theyContinue reading “When the Heap is Swept Clean”

The Hardest Race

(A prayer in response to John 17) You prayed your heart that last night, surrounded by eleven men who listened, and took note. And after you had left (having suffered, died and risen), John remembered, wrote it down. For me. For us. For generations still to come. We need to know what yearning you expressedContinue reading “The Hardest Race”