Callie Feyen

-quote from Revan Schendler I learned about a course at a local college called, ‘The Study of Love” on the same day I came down with Covid. “Came down,” is the perfect phrase for how it happened because one minute I was fine – maybe I had a slight tickle in my throat – and the next thing I knew… View Post

“Forgive me,” Scott Hoezee writes in a prayer, “for sometimes thinking that inspiration comes from only the great stories.” Forgive me, for ignoring the swell of gratitude I feel standing in front of the strawberries at the grocery store—because they are on sale, and red and plump, and their seeds pop like accessories; their green leaves the perfect up-do for… View Post

Read about the making of this poem, and the importance of paying attention when that one word finds you – even if, and especially if, you don’t want to be found. Story here.

First, I start with poetry. This morning’s poem is “Not Like A Dove,” by Mary F.C. Pratt, and here she is describing the Holy Spirit as something scary; something that “take[s] our treasures” for its “glittering hoard,” and I consider that perhaps our treasures are nothing unless the Holy Spirit has a hold of it – her claws around what… View Post

Lord, my daughters sing along to the Mama Mia soundtrack, to Taylor Swift, and to One Direction as though they are singing hymns. Help me to remember I sang along to Salt-n-Pepa, “The Humpty Dance,” and, “Booty Call,” with the same conviction. Help me to remember the night on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico when I heard Shock G’s voice declare,… View Post