Unwrap our Darkness

We can scarcely believe it, God, this story of your birth in the world. We rationalize and reason, we read the headlines and we doubt, and still, we hope, desperately, that it just might be true. If we have lost faith in the promise of change, unwrap our doubt to make...
The Peace of Wild Things

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild...
A little boat adrift!

A little boat adrift!

Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town?   So, sailors say, on yesterday, Just as the dusk was brown, One little boat gave up its strife, And gurgled down and down.   But angels say, on...