To be a pariah takes only hateand the unshaken conviction that you,above all others, are right.To be an outcast you only need yellwhen a listening earmight salvage a soul.To be Jeremiah, you need more than that:not only conviction, not only the truthbut the burden of weeping,the burden of love,the knowledge that kingdoms are built ofContinue reading “The Weeping Prophet”
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20 Contemplations #16: Consolation
With weeping they shall come, and with consolation I will lead them back… (Jeremiah 31:9a, NRSV) Noise. The ages seem to verge upon chaos. Yet crescendo is not crisis. What men of old saw has not failed. Four hundred years of silence did not climax now, to then leave us empty. He always spoke gentlyContinue reading “20 Contemplations #16: Consolation”
Lent: Emmaus 1
” And he said to them, ‘O foolish ones and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?’” (Luke 24:25-26) Slow to understand, the day turns to night. Light dwindles, the length of days shortens; haveContinue reading “Lent: Emmaus 1”
Lent 32: Saturday of Fourth Week
Some will say: Had we been alive then, we would not have killed the prophets or despised their words. Yet the Truth stands to rebuke. In every heart, the secret depths defy what shines with grace before us, takes, destroys, the tender things and carves a throne from bones. Jerusalem, Jerusalem: the fireContinue reading “Lent 32: Saturday of Fourth Week”
The Consolations of Writing 