Five Minute Friday (five minutes of writing on “Now”) TODAY: There are hungers waiting to be fed, Words ready to be spoken, Foods asking to be consumed, Garments waiting to be put on, Voices longing to be listened to, Truths waiting to be taken up or rejected, Lies hoping to pounce, Masters eager to … Continue reading Today
night-sung starlight twinkling time-traveling troupe playing out the same celestial story, sure as the sun a God-friend gazing upward, holding a holy pledge, a knife raised, a voice a boy untied, a birthright thief running for his life met by night angels arms raised lifting a promise waves heeding, holding mighty heads to … Continue reading Things I Know to Be True
I have been hearing them all winter. In the early morning, their howls and yips ring out through the quiet forest as they call to one another. I always stop to listen, enjoying the sound of the coyotes talking to each another in their strange canine language, grateful to live so close to the wildness … Continue reading On coyotes and quarantine
Transitive The thing is unsatisfactory. Something still is not quite right. So I will keep smoothing, spinning, shaping. And maybe, in the end, I will collapse, press in, put the whole mess back into a form in which I can begin again, deftly forming, patient until the beauty of my intention takes hold. Intransitive … Continue reading Adjust: a verb (Five Minute Friday)
In the midst of our crisis, we may have forgotten we are in the season of Lent. It is our time of fasting and meditation, the 40 days leading up to Holy Week in which we imitate in some small way the fasting of Jesus in the wilderness. We find ourselves in an interesting sort … Continue reading Lent: A reminder
Five Minute Friday: Tomorrow As a kid I don’t remember worrying too much about tomorrows. Maybe this is not true; maybe I blocked out the things I don’t want to remember or to be true of me. But I do remember having such deep trust in my parents that I didn’t need to think about … Continue reading Tomorrow
When it feels the whole world has gone mad. When life comes to a sudden, screeching halt. When panic rules. When all my plans evaporate, the doors slam closed, and disappointment chokes. It’s so easy to point fingers. It’s so easy to scoff. It’s so easy to be bitter, or afraid, or simply exasperated. Because … Continue reading On being quarantined
Five-Minute Writing Challenge on CLEAR Clear Once I inhaled the sharp first breath and knew my place. I won’t say I understood. Not that, maybe never that. But I stood upon the grass, ran fingers through the trickling wet and laughed, oh how I laughed. I loved the bird song, … Continue reading Clear
Table I was one of the uninvited. Improper, dirty underdressed, sweaty from a day of labor and forgetting. I knew the thing was happening as a distant pleasure, a high joy, not for me. And then the servant scurrying along the road, grabbing my sleeve. “Come. Hurry. It’s starting.” In … Continue reading Table (Five Minute Friday)
Ten-day writing challenge: Write for five-minutes on the daily word prompt. Today's word is"today." “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” (Hebrews 3:15) I wake to the feel of the hard earth beneath me. I stand at the door of my tent and see the vast … Continue reading Today
