Covenant [1Word5Voices]

No one stands at the altar (physically or metaphorically) to get married thinking “This is going to end in pain and suffering and heartache.” Yet we know many marriages will end in just those ways. So will friendships and employment and memberships and a variety of other relationships. Why? Without oversimplifying the complexity and wide-range […]

Joy [1Word5Voices]

Joy in Lent In the quiet. In the space between breaths. In the lengthening shadows. In the last note of the song. In the whispered prayer. In the wrestling with angels and demons. In the doubt that finally learns its name. In the temptations and trials. In the dust of creation and destruction. In the wilderness […]

Alone [1Word5Voices]

There are a few variations, but many will remember the nursery rhyme, The Farmer in the Dell (here’s one way it has been sung). For the uninitiated, the song is little more than a string of relationships. The Farmer takes a wife, who takes a child, who takes a nurse, who takes a cow, who […]