This is a question I get asked more and more lately. Who are you? How did you get here? Why are people listening to you? One retreat director, who—based on multiple recommendations—was engaging me as the lead speaker at a week-long event for 2017, actually spelled out the confusion,” I mean, you’re not a pastorContinue reading “Who are you?”
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When We Don’t Know How to Pray
O Lord Hear My Prayer
Whatever you’re longing for, suffering from, losing patience to hope for. Wherever your felt hurt lies or your helplessness lives. Whether you even know or believe of speak to God. No matter. May this be a song that blesses you today.
Healed by song
Advent is a time of truth-telling and so I will tell you this: I have a horrible singing voice. But I love to sing—Christmas carols in their season— and throughout the year, the chants of Taize. I know that I feel more human, and more free of the burden of being human, after belting outContinue reading “Healed by song”
Good morning!
Day 3 in my new office with its pale yellow walls and its clean, white, seemingly endless desktop. The chair in corner is not too big, not too small. I can read there comfortably for hours. The windows are open out onto the street, which is quiet now with all the neighborhood kids back inContinue reading “Good morning!”
Heather Choate Davis 