Freedom From Bondage

Bondage. That’s how I would describe the life I didn’t even know I was trapped in these last 33 years. Trapped in my own head, fighting with people, places and things that weren’t behaving how I thought or assumed they “should” be, and feeling the pain and distress this caused to the nth degree.  Now,

Image and Likeness

I Am Who Am Tells me who I am And in that my dignity lies His Image and Likeness Are clues to my Christ-ness Ipse or alter both true. His Image is Union E pluribus Unum Our God is never alone Eternal Communion The key, no delusion, To why we’re created at all. His Likeness

Rings to Grow

Stay strong, young elm, there are rings yet to grow The fire in your soul will tell you where to go. Just wait for the day, stand patiently by, Eventually your height takes you nearer the sky. From there you will see such expanse to behold That your thoughts will transcend, limitless, bold. Yet your

What’s Your Transcendental?

Truth, Goodness, Beauty. Allow me to attempt a brief explanation before we dive in. In the Catholic church, these three properties are something that elevate our hearts and minds beyond the material and ultimately lead us to God. I love the description that they are seen as “evidence of God’s fingerprints on the world”. They

Mary Undoer of Knots

Oh Mary, my mother, I come to you today Because I am so troubled and my heart’s in disarray I can’t see through the snarled mess These wretched knots cause such distress! But I believe, as I’ve been taught, You steady wait for the distraught. Oh Mary, my Mama, your tenderness is clear You softly

The Beauty of What IS

You know how you can hear the same thing time and time again, and then all of a sudden it just blows your mind and changes everything? I’ve recently had that experience. I’m realizing that for so long I have been viewing the world with this lens of error identification. It’s not a bad thing,

A Rainbow Full of Grace

You don’t see what I see Don’t marvel at atrocity You see beneath, you see beyond The present can’t make you undone. It seems that things from long ago Have twisted, warped and changed my soul I didn’t know it at the time But now I writhe, without a why. These things are messy, deep

This is Me

When it comes to prayer, I’ve been told only two things are necessary. First, you need to show up, and second, you need to be honest.  There’s a recording of the rehearsal of the song, “This is Me”, from the movie, The Greatest Showman, in which you can actually see the transformation of the singer

The Toilet Seat Was Up

Have you ever gone to sit On the toilet in the dark Expecting it to catch you And instead, you disembark? On a journey in the water One you simply never wanted But you sat down in the dark And now your discombobbled. Your plan was plain and simple, You wanted something solid. You planned

Love the Sinner, not the Sin

All of this work I have done in learning my identity, and through that identity finding my untouchable, unchangeable worth, has led me ultimately to realize that if that is true for me, then it must also be true for you….even if I don’t like you. Now that sounds harsh, but I think we all