a life incredible, vivid, excellent.
This year my half birthday falls on Good Friday; I will be halfway through my 33rd year. I’ve thought a lot about Jesus over these past six months, wondering what human life was like for Him, wondering whether He started counting down the days to the cross, knowing full well what was coming.
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look, light has broken
on the darkened world
vanished is the lonely night —
eternity dawns
Jehovah, how can
One so great become so small?
Yahweh, a baby?
For me, wonder flows from paying attention to the world around me, whatever or wherever that happens to be at the moment. Paying attention to what is outside and beyond myself is necessary to get my eyes off me and onto the world God made, and then on to Himself.
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remind us, O Lord
when we hunger
what dreams may come to grace the way
of weary children in worn-out beds
o God of yeast o God of golden butter
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and is it possible even on Easter even on the day when all things began being made new is it possible that even on this day of days i could with one breath bless God and with the next curse humanity? o, my God, what is it in me that responds this way? what pride…
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in the space between now and what’s next
fishermen sorrow and demons rage
maybe we cannot face what
we made God become