I wander off. I always have, even as a child. I don’t know why, but I do. 
I have heard several stories told of just disappearing when I was little. Mom has told more than once the story of how when I was just a toddler, I got up one morning, got a chair and unlatched the front door and walked outside, down the street (our house was on Poplar) and crossed Perkins Road. …
Light Birth
We sit darkened inside
Deep bodying, Still Being
Breathing, gasping
At phantoms of fate
Waiting, wondering
How nothing shines forth
As sparks of shadow
Glimmer in faint absence
Light is our god
But God is the night
Hiding entangled
In stars of the dark
Going to ground
To strike the stone
Eyes grow accustomed
To caves without exit
Facing all directions at once
There is no behind
Yet strangely we sense Someone
Other than self
Tpt 6/22/2019…
BOND OF MERCY
In the closing scene of the 1980’s movie, Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, Timothy Hutton’s character Conrad mentions to his Dad (played by Donald Sutherland) how he always thought that his Dad had a ‘handle’ for everything and how he admired that about him. …
HIDDEN ABUNDANCE
Think of a time that you felt needy. Maybe it was a time that you felt alone or perhaps ignored and unimportant. Aside from the circumstances that you may associate with why or how you came to feel that way, simply stay with that feeling itself. …
THE CHRIST FACE
As we look about our world today, our neighborhoods and cities, our country and our world, we see senseless violence and dehumanization everywhere. We may wonder “where is all this coming from – all this hatred and focused harm on each other?” …