October 25 through November 22, 2026
REFLECTION
The worst thing we ever did
was put God in the sky out of reach
pulling the divinity from the leaf,
sifting out the holy from our bones,
insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement
through everything we’ve made
a hard commitment to see as ordinary,
stripping the sacred from everywhere
to put in a cloud man elsewhere,
prying closeness from your heart.
The worst thing we ever did
was take the dance and the song
out of prayer
made it sit up straight and cross its legs
removed it of rejoicing
wiped clean its hip sway,
its questions, its ecstatic yowl, its tears.…
