Love vs. Your Love

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedLove is like
dark fog in the night,
only seeing twenty or thirty
feet in front of any face,
where lights speckling
only showcasing the swirling
mist in the damp air.

But your love is
Hard Teeth,
biting and thrashing
and gnawing all the way
into the soft tissue of
my unused pectoral muscle,
because these hands don’t raise anymore.

I am in the process of becoming a community chaplain with The Order of Hildegard. This program is designed to help form people into spiritual leaders that lead and serve from the margins. It’s for the people who don’t quite fit with the traditional church because of trauma, disability, or identity. If you, as my community, would like to help me fulfill the financial obligation this chaplaincy program has, you can give at the link below. Thank you for the myriad ways you support me.

If you’re aching to listen for God in the real stuff of life—grief, wonder, doubt, desire—I offer spiritual direction as a space to breathe and be heard. We listen together for the Spirit moving in the ordinary, the hidden, the in-between. No fixing. No formulas. Just presence, honesty, and room to be fully human before God. If that sounds like what your soul needs, I’d love to walk with you