I have to admit to mixed feelings about Memorial Day. Later this morning there will be a parade through the Village. Complete with fire trucks with lights flashing. A band of some type. Children on bikes or in wagons decorated with bunting and … [Read more]
A Prayer for the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend
On this Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend… Let us pray for any and for all who have lost their lives in any conflict. Their names remembered on bronze plaques And marked by crosses or stars or crescents that line far too many fields. Let us pray for … [Read more]
To Everything There Is A Season
My reflection from a recent funeral service... To everything there is a season And a time for every purpose under heaven. I learned those words from Pete Seeger’s song Turn! Turn! Turn! before I ever knew they were in the Bible. Many of … [Read more]
Reaching Back To Find My Way Forward
I wouldn’t be who I am today Or, where I am today If, when I was 19 years old, I hadn’t stumbled upon the book Raids on the Unspeakable by Thomas Merton. I can no longer find it on my bookshelf, but what I remember of that book is that on every … [Read more]
A Prayer for Sunday Morning
My guess is before yesterday you had never heard of it. Santa Fe, Texas. Now we have. On Friday, 8 students and 2 teachers were killed by a 17 year old. The headline of the yesterday’s New York Daily News read: With yesterday’s Texas massacre, … [Read more]
A Sunday Morning Prayer
In this moment which is now, O God, But never again Create some space within us we pray. Push past our busyness. And our lists. And our focus on what comes next Rather than the moment we have Right here. Right now. Stop us long enough that … [Read more]
