The Thread of Words

I have a new WordPress web site called Sleep on the Hearth , and I've moved my blog there, along with my main web site. I hope you'l...

Psalm 63:6 On my bed I remember you— I think of you through the watches of the night. I have a medical test coming up, and last night I la...

Romans 13:11 But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose...

This is one corner of a soul collage, or soul card, that I made last week. One eye stays clear, in spite of trouble revealed from within and...

This hippocampus lives inside building 46 at Google in Mountain View. I walk past her* often, and I always stop. Hippocampus, by Mardi S...

Isaiah 45:15a You are a God who hides yourself. I boarded the shuttle to work last Monday with a cloud over my head. A lot's been going ...

When someone is sick, people start talking about God's will. Thy will be done . What does it mean? I've heard it used several ways...

(My blog has moved to SleepOnTheHearth.com . Please visit!) I spent three nights last month at Mercy Center in Burlingame, California. Th...

I gaze at the heavens, searching for you, my God. ( Ps. 123:1 , ICEL Psalter ) Barefoot in the dirt outside our tent in the dark, I bend bac...

Psalm 18:16-19 But me he caught—reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in w...

Matt. 26:38b Then he said to them, "....Stay here and keep watch with me." My friend Sue Ann works as a chaplain with SpiritCare M...

The Methodist covenant prayer I am no longer my own but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me ...

Psalm 63:7 I sing in the shadow of your wings. Sometimes it's done in a shadow, in obscurity. Not standing on a box in the middle of dow...

(My blog has moved to SleepOnTheHearth.com . Please visit!) Psalm 63:2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glo...

Psalm 63:1 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there ...

The Favor I said, "May I pet you? What an honor it would be." You replied with some drawn-out "mmm" syllable of complain...

I recently viewed some porn online. I wanted to know what's out there. I'm wise enough to stay away from things that would definitel...

Luke 1:29 Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. This evening I parked in the garage behind the YMCA, walked...

Romans 13:11 The hour has come for you to wake up. It is the first Sunday of Advent. We begin our vigil, waiting for the light. Sometimes I ...

Matthew 25:16 Right off, the first servant went to work and doubled his master's investment. This morning at St. Cuthbert's , Pamela...

Luke 1:35 ... and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. On the surface, fame; deeper down, obscurity. The angel has just told Mary...

2 Chron. 20:15b Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. Today I am holding...

Romans 12:9 Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. ( The Message ) I just finished a book that is good in two senses of...

Acts 2:1–4 The flames separated and settled on each of them.... Ten years ago at this time I was on a retreat at Our Lady of Solitude in the...

Acts 1:9–11 Jesus rose from the dead (Easter), appeared to various people over the course of forty-plus days (the Easter season), ascended i...

John 14:9 Jesus answered, "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has...

I'm grateful that the Easter season lasts for 50 days. I didn't go to church on Easter—I wouldn't have been able to take it all ...

John 11:1–45 v. 37: But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" It...

Psalm 51:6 Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart. In The People's Companion t...

John 20:1 On Sunday morning while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled away from the en...

Matthew 2:1–12 When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. (NRSV) Sometimes the Epiphany holds still, and we ca...

(My blog has moved to SleepOnTheHearth.com . Please visit!) John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said unto them,...

John 20:17 Jesus said, "Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I ascend to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.'" In...

John 20:14 At this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. Jesus, I don't want this t...

What is the bottom line? What is my bottom line? Pax All that matters is to be at one with the living God To be a creature in the house of t...

John 20:11–12 ...As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been...

John 20:13 "Dear woman, why are you crying?" the angels asked her. Because my dad's gone, and I don't know where he is. Be...

John 20:11–14 The disciples then went back home but Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she knelt to look into the tomb and sa...

Luke 15:8–9 Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully u...

John 20:1 While it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. Yesterday I painted some images while considering David Whyte's beau...

Luke 13:10–17 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Then he pu...

Luke 12:32–40 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybre...

John 19:38–42 [My paraphrase...] Two wealthy men who've been pretending not to be Jesus' disciples come forward to claim his dead bo...

(My blog has moved to SleepOnTheHearth.com . Please visit!) Luke 11:1–13 ... Teach us to pray. Hmm. ...one of [Jesus'] disciples said...

Luke 10:25–37 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" That is, "Who must I love if I w...

Luke 8:26–39 Jesus cast a squadron of demons out of a crazy guy. And then... ...they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sittin...