Prayers in Winter

O Lover, Through the window of my second floor man cave I gaze again at the tapestry of trees, the remnants of the uncut forest into which our development was grafted. Above the snow...

[“Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace, / Your strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe, / Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray, / Your love...

[“Contingency. Meaning subject to chance, not absolute. Meaning uncertain, as reality, right down to the molecular level, is uncertain. As all of human life is uncertain. . . .God is given over to matter,...

[“Welcome, welcome, welcome. I welcome everything that comes to me today, because I know it’s for my healing. I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions. I let go of my desire...

[“Teresa of Avila wrote of her need to distinguish experiences beginning in God and terminating in the self, and those beginning in the self and terminating in God; the latter left the self altered...

O Lover,  Alas, from time to time I experience my life as if You were absent, as if You simply were not. While I often am aware of Your Presence, when I might edit...

[“But Moses said to (Joshua), ‘Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put (the LORD’s) Spirit on all of them!’” (Num 11:29)] [“John...

O Lover,   You, O Lover, are no more delimited or measured by space than You are by time.  Neither, nor any other finite category, circumscribes You. I have been pondering the category of...

[“. . . (M)any prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them” (Lk...

[“(Y)ou meant evil against me, but God meant it for good to bring about the present result, to preserve many people’s lives” (Gen 50:20).] [“(B)ehold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah,...