Articles

Daylight Savings Time by Kelsa Graybill

We turn the clocks back one hourit is never enoughfrantic to use all the daylight–frazzled to catch up on time. To heal we must turn the clocks backyears, before the tragedythat broke your ...

Invitation by Leslie Bustard

As if pursuing blue skies,then diving, skimming with swiftshadows rippling acrossthe lake's surfacewas a call to come. . . follow, two black swallows archwithin my view—once, twice, andback...

Morning Run by Jessica Whipple

I don’t reject the liturgy-- it’s in my legs and running by definition, is rote the painful process over pavement, fallen leaves each dizzying step sometimes the only prayer I...

Rooted by Charissa Sylvia

Some April showersbring only rootsnot flowers.Growing invisibly,nothing for the world to see,nothing to prove their foundational necessity.Delving down in darkness deep,crawling over rocks an...

Earthbound by Kimberly Phinney

“God’s people need to be carried. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or if they have, they are like the dove of old that lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make th...

At the Bridge by Jessica Whipple

Standing on the wooden span we drop twigs, leaves, wood chips into the stream below. They flow under our feet in dark, secret silence. We know the water is faithful to show ...