Thoughts and Prayers

Lent

It’s already 10 days into Lent. I noted its beginning, last week on Ash Wednesday. I did not go to church and get ashes placed on my forehead. I really didn’t want to participate in this tradition of my faith this year. No particular reason. I guess just my continual questioning of what I doContinue reading “Lent”

Why Thoughts & Prayers

I have started this blog to add discipline to my writing practice. I hope to curate a collection of essays that may piece together into a book of meditations and prayers. Because those are two things I do often, meditate and pray. As I pour through my many, many journals, I see that these practicesContinue reading “Why Thoughts & Prayers”

Happy New Year

I took this picture on January 1, 2020. The start of a new year, a new decade. I felt blessed to be standing at a place where I feel God’s presence so profoundly. The constant rise and fall of the waves, whether large and crashing or gentle and rolling, remind me of God’s ever presence.Continue reading “Happy New Year”

In Defense of a Phrase

Thoughts and Prayers: a typical phrase conveying artificial care and concern for people adversely affected by any number of situations in life; a phrase used in fake concern by people knowing damn well they’re not going to do anything to help. Urban Dictionary I get it. The phrase, “thoughts and prayers,” is tossed about carelessly,Continue reading “In Defense of a Phrase”