This morning as I open my bible I flip to Habakkuk and read the last few lines:
“Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
God, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the deer’s;
he makes me tread on my high places.”
~Habakkuk 3: 17-19a
If I take this …

in the arms of a good father you can go
to the deep water where the questions
that we have left unspoken come out in the open
we will find shelter here
so i lay down what i can not hold in my hands
every sorrow and hope is spinning out of control
and here i find sweet resolution
it comes in letting go
we will find shelter here
hmmm we will find shelter here
…..
~Sandra McCracken

Imago Dei, Adam
God help me to understand
what makes a man a man
not speaking of man as humanity
but as male as opposed to female?
isn’t it more than hormones and body parts?
“So God created Man in His own image,
In the image of God he created them;
Male and female he created them.”1
It is not sports or hunting or fishing
for women do these too nowadays
nor being a CEO or doctor or opening the door for another
it is deeper than our unspoken dress code
or the way we do our hair (or lack of doing)
more than …

don’t forget
don’t forget
hmhmm
that I believe in you
should you forget
should you forget
let me remind you
that I am behind you  ~Brett Dennen
Change is difficult, but I believe that it is what is for the best.  “Life is loving and letting go.”  Sweet change, blow winds, blow.  Sometimes I feel too weak to write, but it can’t be suppressed perhaps.  Sometimes the pen is the only weapon I have against the un-gnarly desire to go to bed really early.  I was reminded by a friend that God believes in me, tonight as I …