2021-06-12

A Prayer for too much to do


Lord Jesus Christ, you had too much to do, too many people to help, and not enough time or resources to do it all. And yet, you took one moment at a time, one person at a time, one event at a time: And you did the best with what you had, to bring about the best in everyone. Send forth your Spirit of wisdom, kindness, and strength to help us to do the same. In the midst of constant activities and expectations and duties and needs: Help us to do the best with what we have, to bring about the best in everyone. Grant us your Spirit, that we may take one moment at a time, one person at a time, and one event at a time, and experience your presence in the midst of it all. And, when possible, give us times of rest and restoration to recharge us to accomplish all you have set before us. It is in your Love we pray. Amen.

2021-06-03

A Post Pentecost Poem


We Christians love to affirm:
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Semper Reformanda!
Always reformed
Always reforming!
Until that reformation
Reforms the way we read the Bible
Reforms the kinds of families we approve
Reforms our understanding of how God made us
Through the unfolding dance of evolution
Reforms the ways patriarchy and hierarchy 
Have silenced and sidelined
Women and Queers and Outsiders
So we can at last hear Christ
Speak through them!
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When Reformation reforms too much
We cling to Tradition
To keep the boundary stones
Firmly in place
Predictably
Immovably
Inertly
In place...
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