Transformed maple
Our tall maple transformed into a beautiful vision overnight by a heavy snowfall. Lord, may you transform me over my lifetime into something beautiful to You, from the inside out.
January 2017
Fresh Epiphany: To the brave bearer, Love…
Fresh Epiphany Wrapping up my clay Nativity again, of a January morning– These three-decades-old figures in the story, hand-formed with the tears Of my just-opened eyes—I muse: After Jesus, newborn fist barely visible, which of these Could be most important? Probably not the thin buff cow with one horn half-broken, Nor the small brown dog, …
The Words of Our Prayers Are Stones
There is a moving prayer, part of Compline–prayers said at the end of the day– contained in the most uncommon “Book of Common Prayer”, that my husband John and I pray aloud together virtually every night before we go to sleep. “Lord, guide us waking, and guard us sleeping, …