“If we have died with him, we shall also live with him” BCP, Good Friday, Anthem 2 This Good Friday’s offering as we contemplate the

I give you thanks for all things;
All things sacred and mundane.

Dear God I pray Turn my mind to thoughts of you;Turn my heart to welcoming your presence;Turn my mouth to speaking your praise,  to uttering your

It is the evening before winter storm Elliott is about to break, cold and dark, yet stars still glimmering. We are driving through the mountains to

An internet search on ‘body remembered anniversary’ results in thousands of sites describing how people write about mentally forgetting the date of a loved-one’s death,

by Lexiann Grant “…we commend to thy fatherly goodness ALL those who are in any ways afflicted or distressed…”— BCP, Prayer For All Sorts and

“The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite “at home” here. — C.S. Lewis In his novel “Anxious People” Scandinavian

“Animals are footprints of God.”  Martin Luther Scripture hints that God presents himself to us through his creatures with Balaam. His donkey stopped because an

of Merry Light and Happy Voices by Lexiann Grant “Lumen hilare sanctae…Dignus es in tempore quovis sanctis vocibus celebrari…”Literal Latin Phos Hilaron portion. The first

by Lexiann Grant “I sink in deep mire, rescue me from sinking in the mire; Do not let…the deep swallow me up. Draw near to me … Where can