Oh Abba
Why Me?
Oh Abba
How will this be?

Less planning, more praying
Less going, more staying
Less busy, more simply
Less hurry, more slowly.

“What I am doing
you do not understand now,
but afterward
you will understand.”

After years of silence, injustice,
Oppression and pain
Jesus stood up in the temple
And announced why He came…

Since the very beginning
He has been running
toward me
Even when I’ve run away.

A branch on its own 

will wither and die

but attached to the source

it is bursting with life.

Here I am Lord,
I’ve come to meet with You.
I don’t care how you come, Lord.
Just… that… You do.

You have permission to press pause.
Take a minute. Take a beat.
Think. Breathe.
And ask yourself… 

Jesus cared
that they were scared
It was their fear
that drew Him near

Love wants to be with
Love needs to be near
Love can’t stay away
Love has to be here

What if the seemingly

endless delay

is full of gifts you wouldn’t

receive any other way…

May God meet you anyway
When you have no words to say
Would you let your body pray through you today…

It’s easier to stay in the valley
than hike to the peak
It’s easier to follow the pack
than move into the lead

Lord of the Sabbath
We enter this day
Mindful that you alone give true rest
You alone are our true rest.

We thought it was a sprint.
And it turned out to be a marathon.
And here we are 
Still.
Running.

“How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people”
The opening line of Lamentations
A book of lament
Of loss, of lack, of longing…

It’s true, I googled it—
The most nutrient rich soil is
the inky black stuff
Thick with manure and compost…

We’ve all been exposed.
Not necessarily to the virus
(though maybe...who knows)
We’ve all been exposed BY the virus.

Corona is exposing us…