Blessing for Beshert

Boats docked at a marina with a colorful sunset and reflections on the water.

  When twilight enters The window of your  Aloneness And your heart aches For the tender touch of your beloved, May you be blessed to remain open and receptive. May […]

Storm

Abstract watercolor painting with colorful, irregular shapes and brushstrokes scattered on white paper.

“Snow hardens into ice crust /
we must pierce…”

For Psalm 98

Wildflowers and lush greenery in a garden at sunset, with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.

“When grief and uncertainty and fear are all we know /Still, we sing”

Frogs Came Before Locusts

A small brown frog sits in the wet, cupped hands of a person wearing a gold ring.

  As winter lingers past its silver shimmer, dimmed, gray clouds low and heavy with unready snow, why not assess the calendar’s limp pages, count the weeks. This is the […]

A Ritual For Coming Out As Gay

photo of two adults with one's arm around the other's shoulders

Announce to the people you wish to come out to, “II Samuel 6:5 states that King David, who is believed by some to have been gay, [or you can omit […]

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