Amy Secrist

Tag: life

  • Christ’s Keeping

    We make this life together, our own dusty prints over the road; our own hands making up and turning down the beds; our own mouths tasting the bitter and the sweet, the salty and the sour; like Rumi’s chick pea and cook, we are each other’s teacher, hitting each other with the skimming spoon, boiling in our passions and in…

  • For Thomas (On the Occasion of His Tenth Birthday)

    Often you say to me, “I can’t believe you’re my mom.” I choose to take this as a compliment. Often I say to you, ” Please stop acting like an almost 10-year-old.” I insist you take this as a compliment. When I think of life a decade ago, I wince at all my oozing pridefulness.…

  • The Yoking (A Prayer for Unity, Christian and Otherwise)

    We are caught inside this swath of love this massive yoking where we love one and are all-loving, this massive yoking where we love all and are love’s focusing. Christ’s mystery and enigma, this yoking love, this kingdom becoming. But in moments beneath love’s canopy when rain falls for the thirsty and light shines for…