Sermon Notes for 3 Easter (Year A), April 26, 2020 St. James, Poquetanuck; Grace, Yantic Today’s gospel, the story of the Road to Emmaus, is only found in Luke’s gospel. In fact, if all we had about Jesus were three of the stories only found i...
"come outside and walk!" clouds call the winter-weary heart window
joyful clementines tangy sweetness fills the heart scent fills the space
loaf shared among friends simply flour water salt stirred with joy and life
stone flung across ice keening winter’s death as it sings spring to life
Trees within a tree repeating fractals of life deep as you please
climbing season past ivy chats with its neighbors bark, leichen, and light
prayer flowed root to leaf now soaked in other prayers luminous pew
At their best, Love, Power, and Justice flow together… "Power without Love is reckless and abusive Love without Power is sentimental and anemic Power at its best is Love implementing the demands of Justice Justice at its best is Power correcting...
I recently received a new teaching about the nature of hope. I’ve always thought hope had to do with a time in the distant future when the now of then will be better than the current now. But I’ve learned that hope is really a very present emoti...
wabi-sabi (侘寂) mauve and green in gold-hazeled spray of meadow-grass
leaves last a season lichens linger centuries each has a timeline
hornets once hidden now brought to autumn light glad for tall trees
swish and flick sending sparks across the woods nature’s magic wand
plink-patter-pop of a billion seed bombs dropping field of falling
one point perspective sees the vanishing point ignores the splendor
stone-eating lichen turns bridge to soil by degrees patient composter
Autumn light streams through golden panes giving new life to old grain
keeping bees happy when others have gone to seed montauk daisies
