Category Archives: Awakening

I’ve been sick the past few days. Welcome to the body, yet again. Last night I sat in the dark coughing, waiting for the light to change, which it didn’t. I dozed off in darkness, chest aching but happy. Happy because I have seen the Lord, and he speaks to me from beyond the reachContinue reading “Advent Journal: Holiness Rose Like A Fierce Gorgeous Tide”

Notes from A Retreat / 2025 1 Earlier this year, when the flowers started blooming in earnest, I began a long retreat. The expectation was that it would be brief – a few days, maybe a week. I was tired; the writing was meandering. A break, a rest – a respite of some kind –Continue reading “Flower Power: Listening to Jesus, Listening to Black Women”

Early on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away. She ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and cried, “They have taken my Lord from the tomb, and I do not knowContinue reading “After Easter: What Did You See?”

And so the journey ends. So the Advent season – always an abstraction, always a projection – ends. The long night ends and a new day begins. The manger was always a symbol. Shall we be born again in our shared heart? Can we even begin to understand what that means? Do we need to?Continue reading “In Christmas Time”

Often, at night when I am most with Jesus and the Holy Spirit in prayer, I draw the curtains. Privacy, seclusion, minimal distractions. I am not of this world but another. But last night I let the curtains be. The moon was right outside the window, spectral and thin, and I was in the moodContinue reading “Advent Travels: Under the Bookish Pedagogy”

0 I cannot figure out if Marianne Sawicki is holding my hand or slapping me awake from a nightmare. How could I choose? Summarizing aspects of Edward Schillbeeckx’s thinking she casually shreds the past fifteen years of my life. Nothing matters but this. The experience of grace grows out of the fundamental experience of one’sContinue reading “Advent Travels: Mary Said It”