As the deer longs …

Things haven’t been easy of late.  Stuff that was supposed to move forward has ground to a stop.  Things that weren’t supposed to happen did.  There has been silence where I thought speech was supposed to be and conversations where I kind of longed for silence.  And it’s been winter, which never is easy forContinueContinue reading “As the deer longs …”

Waiting

The texts for Sunday, December 4, 2011:  Isaiah 40:1–11;  Psalm 85:1–2, 8–13;  2 Peter 3:8–15a;  and Mark 1:1–8 As a person who has, in all honesty, stood by the microwave and pleaded with it to hurry up— I am probably not the one to speak with the wise experienced words of a patient waiter. Waiting is not myContinueContinue reading “Waiting”