Jul 24, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Melanie Kyer Moonlight Prayer Never forget: There is light in the darkness. There is sun after rain. There is morning after night. God will not let the darkness last. God’s rainbow promises the rain will stop. God’s hand spins dusk into the dawn. But...
Jul 10, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Kathryn Yingst A Prayer For Hunt, Texas Raise your voices Through the trees Around each curve Of limbs Of water That every space Is found Is filled With presence Persistent Until each Mystic child Is reunited Into the arms Of her beloveds Though mothers Wear...
Jun 10, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Waiting Far below the canopy beneath the understory the fern waits Liquid blue reflections hint enigmatically at the bright sky above Hidden lakes of lily-of-the-valley scent the heavy shadows that weave around it ...
May 15, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Spring By the time you read this, the forsythia will be gone. The bushes will still be there, of course, but the brilliant yellow blossoms will be spent. New England springs are much anticipated, much loved, much photographed, and to my...
Apr 30, 2025 | Reflections
Image:Staff THE TELLING OF THE RESURRECTION I subscribe to a writing organization whose aim is to encourage members to write about memories that might otherwise not be shared with family or friends. One week the suggested topic was to describe what your mother was...
Apr 1, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Melanie Kyer How does Lent work in Australia When the days are getting dark? When the promise of new life Is still seasons away? How does Lent provide its promise For the unjustly detained Who sit wondering if Jesus Died to set them free, too? How...