Transfiguration A, Exodus 24:12-18

I had a car like Exodus once. Whenever you left the house you could never be sure you might not spend forty years wandering around stuck in the wilderness. It was a used '59 English Ford my dad got for fifty bucks. It had transmission problems. Just like those tricky approaches to YHWH on Sinai, you had to double clutch it sometimes to grind down from one gear to the next up that slippery slope. It could get ugly.

Advent 3, Year A, Psalm 146

Father Alfred Delp, a Jesuit priest who was imprisoned by the Nazi's in World War II, wrote from his prison cell shortly before he was hanged:

Ordinary 33 Year C Isaiah 65:17-25

Jeremiah 31:7-14; John 1:1-18

Monday, December 27, 2010

Epiphany 2 A

Isaiah 49:1-7

Monday, January 10, 2011

It sounds like
the English pronoun
first person nominative singular
and organ of vision
are the same -

in Isaiah
the prophet of God
and vision
and person
I am
are - yes - the same.

I am caught in earshot
to speak the salvation of the earth,
snared by words I did not write
to set my life
for the salvation of the earth
I do not make.