Dear God, we pray for another way of being … Long ago I made it a rule to always try to preach on the hard texts of the Bible. Today’s reading depends on one of these, so while you have the selection from the Gospel in front of you – that is John 14: 8-17 – […]
Mothers’ Day
Like the moon’s steady ocean tug, memories hover, insistent, drawing me in…. Your earliest tenuous baby flutters deep inside me… growing so quickly into strong jabbing kicks. You bruised my ribs… Lying in bed, my swollen tummy pressed up against your father’s back…. keeping him awake so he too could feel your kicks. The […]
Balancing Fear and Love as the Frames of our Humanity
The essential theme of today’s Gospel reading is unity – to be one with each other as Jesus was one with God. This morning I want to suggest a values rather than text-book meaning for these puzzling words. Church in my younger days was more formal, more doctrinally passionate than it is for most of […]
Open to Desire
She was just one more street girl who overdosed. While she worked the streets her only friends and supporters were a small group of street workers, community carers, a scattering of nuns and members of our street café. At death, her family finally owned her and arranged a lavish funeral in a provincial cathedral. None […]
A New Commandment
The journey from one bush station homestead to the next took longer than I anticipated – and in any case I was not expected till the morning. So, there was no alternative but to sleep by the side of the road. I found a clear patch away from the possibility of scattered dust or stones […]
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