Acts of Beauty, Acts of Humanity [a poem]

Posted On October 7, 2023

Mark 14:1-11 There were glimmers of beautyin your tears of shamethat fell like silverthat fell like raina jar is brokenpouring out its allinto this story,… Read More →

Wounded Healer [a poem]

Posted On September 2, 2023

You know me and you love meeven in the darkness of my fear,you are close and you are callingeven in my wretched gut-despair,you know me… Read More →

My Words Fall in the Gap [a poem]

Posted On July 1, 2023

My words, they fall in the gapbetween your heart and minethey slip through the holebetween the kingdom that isand the kingdom that comes,they fall like… Read More →

Beauty

Posted On June 3, 2023

May my eyes be openedto see the fragile God of beautyin whose image you have been made;may my eyes be openedto see Christ in you… Read More →

Intimacy [a poem]

Posted On June 4, 2022

There is a hunger for intimacya longing for onenesstwisting and turningspiralingbetween stomach and chestbetween hearts,between you and me;this is an awareness(perhaps),that we were once allthat… Read More →

that dawn will come

Posted On May 11, 2022

There will come a dawn,when the years those leeches ate,precious child-dreams destroyed,will fill your eyes once more,and you will learn to trust again,for you are… Read More →

The Alleyway Salon: The Upside-Down Kingdom in Jakarta

Posted On May 18, 2011

On the Thursday before before Easter, in honor of the example Jesus had set for us on that night some 2000 years ago, I set… Read More →

A Slice of Eden for the Poor in Manila

Posted On August 27, 2009

Three of the values that Servants cherishes are that of wholism, creativity and beauty. By wholism, we believe that Jesus died to ‘restore the whole… Read More →

The Softer Face of Servants

Posted On July 6, 2005

Simplicity! Incarnation! Servanthood! Sound too harsh? If you don’t like our principles, we now have other ones! If you always felt as though there was… Read More →