Mercy come call on my cynical heart—a New Year’s prayer
…Pope Francis has called 2016 the year of mercy, perhaps the following can be one of the year’s prayers: Mercy, come call on my cynical heart. Doubt I can...
Tag: hope
Hearts open like flowers at passing birds
I would like to be able to show you how a bird at dawn flew past my window and how by that simple act my heart opened like a flower. Was it the light perhaps? T...
Burning to say
You were lying on your side in our small clearing, above the North Saskatchewan riverwhile the morning climbed above the branches, riddled with plastic, and hig...
Wise hope—hope beyond hope-and-fear
There’s hope that has fear as a twin. A tremulous sort of hope that lives in the future and leeches off the past. It’s derivative. It counts on resu...