Alone (Lent #38)

I pull into the parking lot today and am surprised to find my name tag getting snowed on. I must have dropped it as I left yesterday and there it sat, all night, in the cold (and now the snow), alone. The title I have scrawled on this name tag is “Super Hero”. A bit […]

Water (Lent #29)

It’s funny how a word like “water” can trigger so many images, thoughts and memories. One of the first to surface for me was The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted […]

Maybe We Need A Watered-down Church?

I don’t drink much water. Not plain water anyway. Plenty of coffee and soda and other beverages made from water, but not pure water. Why? Water is good and good for you. Water is life. Water is refreshing and cleansing and healthy. Most of the planet is covered in water. Most of our bodies are made […]