Holy Parent and Source of all Life-Giving Revelation- I know that there are scales on my place of perception. For we all “see” and “hear” and “understand” differently. And, thus, in the rooted location where I receive informationand respond in accordance with your Love,There are scales. Where I am unable to perceive my own privilege,Let… Read More
Friday Prayer
With nothing but doubt and a few coins,I leave this room once more,Needing the outside breeze as a balm for my disbelief.Or is it unbelief?I do not know if they are that different, But I know that the heated rehash of events, again and again,In stale air Is not changing anything and, frankly,Is a disservice… Read More
Friday Prayer (Holy Friday)
Can it truly be a “good” day if we are still waiting for the truth to be told about Breonna Taylor, not to mention Patrick Lyoya? Can it be a “good” day if one nation is not satisfied with its own record of injustice and leaders have determined to send those seeking refuge and asylum… Read More
Monday Prayer
By the time I finish this prayer, O God, the situation may have changed and the specifics herein irrelevant, though the sentiment will remain the same. By the time I finish this prayer, O God, someone else may have been killed, silenced, or ignored,Still I pray for change. By the time I finish this prayer,… Read More
Friday Prayer
Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. -Jeremiah 17:5-6 Oh Source… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus Summer is good, butThe earth’s rest during winter is necessary and healing. Summer is good, but The dormant turtles wait in the mud and relax in their slowed heartbeats. Summer is good, butMonths of increased night give us… Read More
Monday Prayer
Before our Zoom screens, we sat and wept when we remembered the Before Times.There on our ring lights, we hung our scripts,And there our parishioners asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs unmasked; they said, “This isn’t real and you are causing suffering for no reason!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a pandemic of illness, of… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: How to Change
Content note: the following is my own opinion and reflection and is not written on behalf of the Board of this organization. At our very last group gathering for this organization, in January 2020, we were facing some big changes. Our Executive Director was moving to the next stage in her life and this group,… Read More
The Sacred Pause
“Sacred pause is the locus of liberation…” – Rev. Meredith Crigler The Board of Directors of RevGalBlogPals has decided to take a Sacred Pause from the beginning of Advent 2021 until the beginning of Lent 2022. The Board made this decision by taking stock of their capacity, the realities of the world around them, recent changes… Read More
RevGalBookPals: A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church (Year W)
Here’s the TL:DR for this review: Buy this book already or put it on a holiday request list now. End of story. (This review is for the Year W book, but I also recommend the Year A resource as well.) While I do read many scholarly books, and I read all the material in the… Read More
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