Word Made Flesh is a contemplative community. One of the ways that we contemplate what God is doing in the world and in our lives is through the reflection articles that we write. We invite you to read, learn, and celebrate with us.
The home behind the old wooden fence…
Suti Sana Starts
April 2010 Tomorrow I will see the culmination of three years of dreaming and planning and hoping! Tomorrow we get to welcome five women into a new life in our community. Tomorrow is the first day of Suti Sana! For the last few months, we have been slogging through details and preparations for…
Weddings
February 2010 I know you have all forgiven my long hiatus from writing you, the humble excuse being my getting married. And since I never do things by halves, Mache and I did not get married just once. No, no. There were three ceremonies in total. For legal reasons, Mache and I began…
Eye of the Storm
December 2009 Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Matthew 14:27-29 A few weeks ago a friend was praying over me and saw an image of Jesus pouring a…
Engaged
July 2009 Here’s a little love story for you. About three years ago, I wandered into the church that is now my church home in Bolivia. I took one look at the cute keyboard player and thought, “Clearly God is doing great things in this church. I better stick around.” But of…
A Pox on Delays
June 1, 2009 Dear friends, How ridiculously bogged down things can get in a majority world country. I claim to be a nonviolent person until I get stuck in Migration Services or hear about our legal battles to keep our tax-exempt status. At those times, if I had a medieval broadsword, I might…
Transit Cops
October 2009 Because I don’t drive in Bolivia, opting instead for the haphazard public transport system, I’ve never dealt with one of the most corrupt facets of Bolivian society—Transit Cops. But my fiancée just bought his first car, an ’81 bile green Beetle, and ran into trouble his first day driving. At a…
Voluntary Displacement
May 2009 Through voluntary displacement, we counteract the tendency to become settled in a false comfort and to forget the fundamentally unsettled position that we share with all people. Voluntary displacement leads us to the existential recognition of our inner brokenness and thus brings us to a deeper solidarity with the brokenness of our fellow…
January Update 2013
I’m not bringing any special message for 2013. God is always with us and all I want for us all is to be aware of it every second of our lives. Another year passed, another year found us happy or not, content or not. 2012 was especially marked by news regarding the end of the…
January 2013
Dear Friends and Family, We celebrated the dignity of a group of adolescents who come to our after-school program today (December 10). With boxes full of the 309 hand-made Christmas cards that these kids made this semester, we all took a trolleybus to a private school in downtown Chisinau this morning. We set up two…
Random Thoughts on Recent Events
Today I am numb, a continent away from tragedy in the U.S. I just can’t seem to shake it.