Lyrical Riffs

Lord please keep me open to you,Keep me following you,Keep me willing to learn,Keep me leaning into you.Though my ideas get fixed,Though the way can be hard going,Though people can …

He carries the world on his back,On his shoulders.Or is he carrying me?My body on his,My troubles weighing him down,My bluster and disappointments,My fakery and missteps pressing hard,As he struggles …

May we respect you as long as the sun looks down,May we walk in your ways as long as the moon punctuates the sky.May we pursue justice, mercy, and humility …

Unique Our God is not made of wood, glass, or bricks,Or the latest AI, or computer chips,No superhero or jungle-bound star,Can’t be contained or sealed in a jar.Not found going …

Life Life is full of places,people,things,challengesand tasks.We all know them,we all face them.Suppose there was someone full of life,tucked away in those places,people,things,challengesand taskswe encounter each day.With us, beside us, …

The Great Gardener wanders through our hearts and minds,Looking for treasure in unexpected places,The rocky fields of our livesYielding pearls that only he can find.Precious things hidden by the mud …

Two more short readings – AdultsI wonder how many of us are trying to be adults,When we never really fitted in those clothes,Our hearts and minds elsewhere,In another time and …

Moving molehills rather than mountains,walking on puddlesin the shallows of the sea,carrying a lightweight palm cross,smooth and slender in my hands,limping down this Calvary road,so many stones in my shoes.Though …

The beat of another drum. For some it sounds like Thunder. For some like Fingers on a tabletop. For some it’s a Stick on a tin. For some it’s a …

You make your home in the heavens, And your place in the earth, With us in the great and small, In the tidy and untidy In the great barrier reef, …

Who knows how long she waited? Who know show long the gardener was there? The garden, the stillness, The emptiness of her heart and that tomb. Who knows the turmoil …

She pours out the perfume and her worship fills the air, Her raw, heartfelt, mindful dedication is unmissable, And history is being made. He is worth every drop, this misunderstood …

Blessed are the hypocrites, For they shall say one thing while doing another. Or perhaps I should say… Blessed are the hypocrites, For WE shall say one thing while doing …

We build our barricades, Sometimes we have to, Life throws its missiles at us and our defences go up. Mishap… misadventure… mistreatment… These things come our way, and we have …

I may go to church and attend lots of meetings. I may write and share a few lines like these, I may scribble all the right phrases, And say the …

What is praying? Kneeling down, hands together eyes closed? Lifting our hands and faces to heaven? Sitting quietly, saying nothing? Sensing the presence of God in the face of another? …

May we hold on to love and loyalty, Tuck them safely into our being. May we hunt for wisdom, chase it down the years, Not setting our own ideas as …

(Inspired by a post on Facebook) If you take a jar of water and add a little earth, you’ll find mud accumulates, and that just makes hard work. The mud will cloud …