Why am I afraid To leave this masquerade? To peel away my disguise and mask? To pose the question I’m afraid to ask? Why am I afraid? What am I hiding from? Where do I think I’ll run To escape answers I don’t want to hear? That things are not as they appear, What am I [...]
Archive for September, 2007
When sorrow calls and dashes Fond hopes and dreams fair, We find beauty from ashes And grace from despair. Grace from despair And hope in the dark, Faith takes to the air On wings of a lark. On wings of a lark, Faith and hope take flight, Like tinder touched by spark, A flame will [...]
Rest can be so elusive. Sometimes we don’t even realize we are not resting until we notice how chaotic our lives are. Last night, in praying with various brothers and sisters, I got a sense of how, as we are being stretched by the Word of God, we are being pushed into real life, outside [...]
One of my regular readings is from a daily devotional by Andrew Murray (1828-1917) entitled God’s Best Secrets. Lately, he’s been quoting excerpts from William Law’s book A Serious Call and then closing the daily mediation with a brief paragraph of his own and a prayer. The other day, the writing was on prayer, and [...]