by Sally Metzger | Apr 16, 2025 | Poem, Pride, Raining Grace
You Left Me, Lord.Had you never gone, I would have thought— But you left. And with you went every speck of my not-whole-but-holey “holiness.” Pretty clever, Lord—How you teach your “chosen” they’re NOT chosenBy virtue of their virtue.Pretty painful, too. I worry...
by Sally Metzger | Mar 16, 2024 | God’s Presence, Holy Spirit, Prayer
In the momentous and the mundane, in chaos or quiet, God’s there. For He’s incapable of abandoning you. I was housesitting for my sister and noticed a book on her bookshelf with an intriguing title: Beginning to Pray. I wasn’t a beginner. Decades earlier, my Mom...
by Sally Metzger | Dec 13, 2023 | Compassion, Grace of God, Healing
The other day an 83-year-old living in the skilled nursing center where I minister was taunted by junior high school kids. They were kids who had taken up residence in her unkind mind. By virtue of our noble birth as children of Divinity, we all should be free of...
by Sally Metzger | Sep 26, 2023 | Faith, Poem, Prayer
| Embrace the Day | Let me not in anguish say, When tragedy knocks here, “Oh my, ungrateful fool I was! I missed the golden year.” Life is glad and joy is mine, But often pain reigns ‘round me. Reduce my days to trite concerns? Let mundane things confound me?...
by Sally Metzger | Aug 17, 2023 | Acceptance, Prayer
| The Power of Acceptance | Few practices provide more spiritual growth, freedom, or inner peace than acceptance. When our boat has capsized and broken into pieces, there is little point in struggling against the rapids. Better to go with the flow until another...
