Advent SongAdvent brings a pregnant waitinghoping for divine surprise.We expect the birth of Wisdom,truth that’s shaped to fit our eyes:gift of being needs our seeingmeaning in a baby’s cries.Advent intersects with prophetsexiled to beyond the walls,speaking of the need to journeyand to heed the word that calls:lonely teaching, dazed with reachingto where light or shadowContinue reading “Advent Song”
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A Lament over the City
A Lament over the City Lent 2; Luke 13:31-35 It’s the city, colluding with thrones, that still murders the prophets, and stones anyone who is sent here to save. There’s no space for Christ’s mothering care in the jostling of many who glare crying “Crucify! Crucify him!” Though our God has wide sheltering wings, whoContinue reading “A Lament over the City”
Barb, poet priest 