Lent 2023 - Murrelets

I'm always (not) asking God to let flames shoot from my fingertips, by which I mean that part of me wants to really surrender to an identity as a…

“Do you have any more of that holy bread?” It’s not a question I’ve ever thought to ask. But Angel did. Despite her name, Angel wasn’t religious. I…

When I was a young woman in college, I had a lot of dates. Most of the men were duds. Just not suitable for a long-term relationship. After one parti…

The Law and the prophets say “do to others what you would have them do to you”. Wow! Yeh, I know that’s old news, in a way. The “golden rule” that…

In a discussion on prayer requests, petitions and intercessions, a sibling mentioned that we often fall into a “magic wand” mentality about praying f…

ASK AND IT WILL BE GIVEN In Mark Twain’s HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Huck is told not to ask for material items like fishhooks, but instead to ask for spiritua…

Annalee heard the ding of her cell phone announcing a new text. She knew what this text would be. Before she looked at it, she finished folding the l…

I was a delivering a tiny red marble to a co-worker upstairs the other day, replacing a missing game part, and I had to stop myself from saying, “Ask…