Prayer + Meditation - Bread and Honey

In Prayer + Meditation

Begin

God says: Can we finally begin now? Become who I know you to be Your soul knows the way Be content with the smallest gestures— the sun rising, a cup of vervain, the hummingbird returned Smile instead of clench, even when Life has you under her thumb See how many times you can fall in love, Every day. Say...

April 9, 2018

In Prayer + Meditation

My Theology

Theology: An evolving understanding of God and of God's relationship with the world. my theology Made by and for love. Entrusted with the Image. Originally blessed, not cursed. Here on divine assignment—A sacred mission My soul is who I am. God answers to many names. The last line of THE STORY has already been inked: Goodness prevails. Faith begins: "Dear God, I trust...

March 12, 2018

In Prayer + Meditation

My soul longs for more

This week marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. These handful of final Winter weeks before the daffodils herald Spring are an invitation for me to tuck in and take stock of where I am, where I would like to be going and what gives my life true...

February 12, 2018

In Prayer + Meditation

Stick to love

"I have decided to stick to love...

January 14, 2018

In Prayer + Meditation

Why Me, Why Here?

WHY ME, WHY HERE? To fall in love. To stay in love— With myself, with my clan With the pileated Woodpecker with the crimson-plumed headdress With God. To manifest in my own unique way a molecule of Jesus in this time and space. To reveal that I am more than dust, I am a soul that was before...

November 13, 2017

In Prayer + Meditation, Prayers

A Prayer to Begin

Welcome back! We are coming up on our five-year mark for Bread and Honey. J.K. Rowling once said in an interview that she writes to understand who she is, what she believes and what is important to her. Every week over the last five years I have done my very...

September 10, 2017

In Prayer + Meditation

A Divine Edit

My mom is my trusted editor for every piece of my writing. She has this gift for trimming unnecessary verbiage to reveal the heart of my message. If she reads a sentence that she especially likes, she underlines it a couple of times for emphasis. Sometimes, she will even write...

June 19, 2017

In Prayer + Meditation

Imagine

Imagine if there was a place that you could go to dream, wonder, hope and feel all the possibilities for your life. Imagine if there was a place you could go for answers to the questions that no one grounded by gravity can answer for you. Imagine if there was a place...

April 3, 2017

In Prayer + Meditation

The Divine Depository

"Can any of you by worrying add a single day to your life?" ---Gospel of Matthew 6:27 — Holy and Loving God, I arrive to the Divine Depository with a heart-sack full of worries. Worry—in all its incarnations—follows me like a tall and looming shadow. I try and shake worry off my trail, but it...

February 27, 2017