Wednesday, October 27, 2010

wordle-ness

 Wordle: fully alive

didn't know about this til today...made this by plugging in one of my old poems
kinda cool lookin', i think

Wordle: hope

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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communion
so many drastically different members of Christ's body, coming to the same table, participating in the same resurrection-restoration-repairing-re-membering act

every once in a while my heart still stops just looking at it
the beauty God intends for us

Friday, October 1, 2010

thank you for seeing me through



thank you

for overlooking the broken commitments
for standing still and steady as stress burst through seams
for listening to litanies of troubles

thank you

for loving, patiently, adamantly, gently, impatiently, with frustration and compassion
for living and breathing hope
for picking up the phone

thank you

for lunches and dinners & food-gifts from your pantry
for finding side-gigs and unexpected sources of income

thank you

for picking up the slack, for stepping in and stepping up
for “it’s alright”s and “don’t worry about it”s and “it’ll be fine”s

thank you

for lighting candles, praying, carrying me in your heart
for your words of faith and conviction, belief and challenge

thank you

for reminding me of all the things i forgot
for repeating the words i couldn’t hear, wouldn’t hear
for being present, next to me or deep in my heart

thank you thank you thank you
for the gift of you, and you, and You

during this hard, hard season

i am straightening out my bent back
moving and breathing to the rhythms of gratitude
and your love is what carried me here

thank you for seeing me through