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Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.          — Matthew 5.34 One of these cold wintry days, it’s suddenly warm and gentle. You can enjoy it, or you can spend the day worrying that it’s… Continue reading Accepting what is

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless… Continue reading Light

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Violence never changes the world. It only adds to the wounds. Only nonviolence will heal us. Nonviolence is not passivity; it is more than “not fighting.” It is the transformative act of bringing the power of compassion to bear upon the world. It requires of us… Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you. Wade in. Over your head. “Go out into deeper waters.” The river of the water of life flowing from the throne. “Fill the jugs with water.” The heavens torn open. “The water I give you will become a spring in you gushing up with infinite life.” Baptize me… Continue reading The baptism of our Lord

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,          who has looked with favor on me in my lowliness. The Mighty One has scattered the proud                   in the thoughts of their hearts. God has has brought down                   the powerful from their thrones,          and lifted up the lowly;… Continue reading Magnificat

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     O Lord, how long shall I cry to you “Violence!”          and you will not save? Why do you make me see wrongdoing          and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me;          strife and contention arise. So the law becomes slack          and justice never prevails. Then… Continue reading Live by faith

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     There was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. A widow kept coming to him and saying, “Grant me justice against my opponent.” For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, “Though I have no fear of God and… Continue reading Keep praying

         O daughter Babylon, you devastator!                  Happy shall they be who pay you back                   what you have done to us!          Happy shall they be who take your little ones                   and dash them against the rock!                             — Psalm 137. 8-9           Many people feel uncomfortable with the Psalms that that pray for deliverance from and even violence… Continue reading Enemies in the Psalms

                   We pray for exiles and refugees; for those who have been displaced by war, poverty, discrimination, poison or violence; for those who have fled their homelands for safety, for work, for hope, for those who have been taken from their homes into slavery. We pray with them and join in their song.          By the… Continue reading Psalm 137 – a prayer

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you. Sixty-five years ago today—Monday morning, August 6, 1945—the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing some 150,000 people. There are things to be said on such a day about peace and nonviolence, about the nature of war, about our capacity for evil, injustice and self-deception, about our… Continue reading The world’s sadness