“We live inside love, there is no outside, only forgetting….”
Many years ago I went to an art sale where my dear friend Jan Gibson was selling her work. I knew her as a poet and as the leader of a rock band. I knew that she created art out of whatever she found and I knew I loved her and her work, but I had no idea how this one item would repeatedly come to me as a life lesson and blessing. Continue reading
Dear Preacher,
“There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea….” Shortly after I heard you preach, I wanted to send you the words to this old hymn to remind you that God’s mercy is wide enough to include me and all of my lesbian and gay brothers and sisters. As I defiantly sang it in my head, I began to realize that I do not choose to approach you in anger. And, of course, I remembered that I am the only one I can change. Continue reading
Into the Mystery 