Co passion

. “You also, BE PATIENT AND ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS , for the coming of the Lord is at hand.”‭‭James‬ ‭5:8‬ ‭ Oh , Patient one, you wrestle with your skin You call me to help, I ask “Can I comfort him?” Seventy times, or maybe only seven , he calls for turn and tuck I… Continue reading Co passion

Retreat COVID Day 4 Smell

A meditation from Day 4 as COVID nurse in quarantine Smell .. The rose from a friend sits by the bed. He called it the “rose of Sharon. ” But it is not , it is a long stemmed red rose with thorns. It is beautiful But I cannot smell it. Is it a rose… Continue reading Retreat COVID Day 4 Smell

Retreat: COVID Day 2 Fever

A simple meditation of a nurse in COVID quarantine The burning fires have come inside me. Those of of the demon and of the divine. Like dueling fires of the prophets of long ago, a campfire is set inside my soul. ‘ it will takes days to burn “ they say. “Bring the hydrants and… Continue reading Retreat: COVID Day 2 Fever

Palms Sunday

We remember how you put palms in our hands, palms in our open ,naked hands. Hands that once tapped tapped keep tapping on wood and on flesh. Before these ritual cleansings and gloves ond trash Palms in our hands, hands that once lifted , opened drifted and dropped. We consider all our sins like deadly… Continue reading Palms Sunday

in a day’s work: ASK

SHORT POSTS OF ADORATION IN BUSY TIMES OF VOCATION The room is lit with lights . Small lights , large lights, like spotlights on a stage  . Lights from pumps for the heart, pumps  for the lungs, pumps  for medications, pumps for suctions,  pumps  for feedings  and the pump I brought. The pump in place of the kidney. A… Continue reading in a day’s work: ASK

Spring Planting : Good Friday 2016

 We plant forgiveness and we wait for love to bloom. I waited a year to see the fruit of forgiveness. Now , today ,almost to the date of my planting with Jesus , I hear a pleasant report. Therefore I repost this blog as a true testimony that when you forgive as He is forgiving  you,… Continue reading Spring Planting : Good Friday 2016