Poem
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Image in Poem and Preaching

Let the image sing loud, lean into the images to their breaking point, and then through the emotions in the image bring forth the meaning. Continue reading
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The Parish- A Sonnet
Into the deep, the waves, the weep, the homes The farm, the soul, and time, and fear, the known And unknown. Few, we traverse winter’d wildsValleys shadowed by death and devil and direDespair. Arctic explorers encased in, Capsized often by our own woes, our sins Yet still we go, no expertise nor ease But dressed in place, in time, in Continue reading
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Breath of Life

From Psalm 137: “By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres… “ Yahweh, mercies that I needon exile shores, by willow trees. While plowmen plow and rivers flowmy heart, soul-sick, sits and on it goesdown sand and stonesweeping branches grown. Lyres, useless in temple-fire;For Continue reading

