Double booking at Pelican Bay State Prison Chapel required me to take a back seat to a more prominent prison minister. Always eager to learn from the pros I settled in to a front row
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Pew Cue
All too quiet hymn,front row child squeals, “Mama.”Reminds us, of All.
Read moreSongs Burst The Bars
The inmate in the second row of chairs said it had been near fifty years since he last sang the verses to Matthew 11:28. His favorite uncle passed away when he was nine years old
Read moreThe Invisible Inks
The write feather in the wind twirls on the head of a pin. The forest sees through us, branch light as owls, dark as a horse. Takes a big foot to mark the way we
Read moreO Say Can You See ?
My window to the world overlooks a green plank fence and an overgrown patch of shrubs. There’s an ocean just a long block away but I can’t see it unless I stand tippy toe. A
Read moreTweet Street
It is the other in your brother that makes the ‘hood interesting. Spices from the window, music in the air, all the names of God in dialects. What the missing fathers miss we are to
Read moreRight Key Wrong Lock
I got drenched by a June shower running from the parking lot to the first security gate at Pelican Bay State Prison. Walking into the chapel I wondered if wringing the wet pages of my
Read moreFlowers and Arrows
William wore a hair shirt somewhere around Italy, shows you what I know about saints. Little picture/prayer cards litter the chaplain’s desk, flowers and arrows pierce the heart. a yard and B yard assemblies at
Read moreThe Patience of Job Loss
My life is not my own. This is either the proof of being a Christian, or the bain of my personal entitlement. I got laid off this week, twice. At an age when folks my
Read moreHalleluiah Haiku
Vanity project. Gravestones, six feet in the air. One, remains empty ! https://www.amazon.com/Head-Lines-Provocations-Devotional-Psalmistry/dp/1945976373
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