Publication of my new book Available from Church Publishing https://www.churchpublishing.org/expectant In the spirit of expectancy, these meditations focus on seeking and seeing God in the everyday of ordinary lives based on a psalm that corresponds to the daily office for… Continue reading

Easter! Now is the time to let your alleluia’s ring alleluias of thanksgiving alleluias of joy alleluias of triumph alleluias of renewal alleluias of promise alleluias of courage Alleluia, Christ is risen! Continue reading

Holy Saturday Will your wonders be known in the dark? or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten? Psalm 88:13 A morning that does not dawn in grief-laden hearts A day where promised love is bereft of any… Continue reading

Good Friday My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? and are so far from my cry and from the words of my distress? Psalm 22:1 Such a small thing a thorn that pierces the fabric of the world… Continue reading

Maundy Thursday When my spirit languishes within me, you know my path; in the way wherein I walk they have hidden a trap for me. Psalm 142:3 This way lies abandonment and loss This way proffers anguish and silence in… Continue reading

Wednesday in Holy Week Turn you steps toward the endless ruins; the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary. Psalm 74:3 The path also wends its way into the ruins of misplaced hopes and distorted vision and arrogant sinfulness… Continue reading

Tuesday in Holy Week Depart from me, all evildoers, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. Psalm 6:8 even now as the savior’s way wends toward the collapse of all even so, the holy one heeds my… Continue reading

Monday in Holy Week For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Psalm 51:3 once again, I stumble familiar faults, familiar wrongdoings, familiar confessions Predictable, the snares of the enemy Needful, my assent to the work… Continue reading

Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent We are like a puff of wind; our days like a passing shadow. Psalm 144:4 The warmth of the sun pierces through the nippy spring air and I lift me face to its… Continue reading

Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent Let me hear of your loving-kindness in the morning, for I put my trust in you; show me the road that I must walk, for I lift up my soul to you. Psalm… Continue reading