Category Archives: Dialogue

I am willing to be Utopian this Advent, at the behest of Jesus, who does not see the world any other way. That’s the stance we take – love is real and only love is real. Then you’re in a different space. It’s new and you have be new within it. It takes two toContinue reading “Advent Journal: At the Behest of Jesus”

The stars were so bright this morning, the air so still and cold. Imagine craving diamonds or a lover when a sky like this is just given to you! Or am I confused again about God? Laughing at myself in the darkness – my wordiness, my devotion to inquiry, my goofy knack for stumbling intoContinue reading “Advent Journal: Stars Then”

I. Introduction Last month, when it seemed like winter would never come, somebody asked me to clarify an earlier reference to prayer, and I began writing instantly and intensely. But I didn’t answer their question. I didn’t even try. Sometimes it’s like that. The Holy Spirit gives you an assignment and you respond with allContinue reading “Notes on Prayer”

What is clear at 4 a.m. is less so as the day goes on. It rained last night; I sat in the darkness and listened. Christmas is coming, plans are being made. I’m tired and I want to rest. In Advent, in prayer, a lot opens up and a lot slips away. I remember ElangoContinue reading “Advent Travels: Church Goes with You”

In Advent, no warning, the writing become disuptive. I forget that we are not in this together, and that my understanding of the illusion of separate interests cannot by force overcome that illusion in another. Why is this so hard? Over the weekend I read Jane Yolen’s YA history of the Shakers. I have lovedContinue reading “Advent Travels: The World as Eden”

What do I have to give to Jesus? What does Jesus want? Or are those the wrong questions? An Advent journey ends at the manger in Bethlehem, with a gift for Jesus. But what if it doesn’t? What if, halfway to Bethlehem, one of the wise men falls in love and bails on the journey?Continue reading “Advent Travels: Happy Servants All Evening”