Tag: exile
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Advent Psalm (126)
Advent Psalm (126) Weary and sleepless, caught off guard by racing pulse, panic, vertigo; rare reprieve to breathe, palpable lostness. Heading for home, down old Highway 6 through tears, Aberfoyle, Puslinch, Clappison’s Corners, steering south on automatic pilot, college kid’s stick-shift Jetta. Over Skyway Bridge, past belching steelwork ugliness, along escarpment’s familiar lines; angled off-ramp…
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Praying from the belly of a fish. #sermon #exile
How do you pray from the belly of a fish? At one level it’s a pretty basic biological question – and a basic biological problem. In the belly of a fish, there isn’t any air. In the belly of a fish, you’re wedged in tight, unable to breath. In the belly of a fish, you…