A friend I’ve not seen for years, Rev. Felix Carrion, used to have a sermon call-and-response which went …Where are you? Here! “What time is it? Now. November 20 each year is two commemorations: Universal Children’s Day, recommitting to 1959 UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child, and International Transgender Remembrance Day which grieves… Read More
Saturday Prayer, November 6, 2021
God, I pray for a voice like the tui,so I can speak, not to others, but with them,adapting erudite languageor insider jargon,to clear wordsand compassionate ones. I don’t want to lose who I am, but gain a second blending voice boxfor my pastoral prayersand prayers by bedsides,for sermons and street protestsand for reading a child… Read More
Saturday Prayer, September 18, 2021
At the Rhiannon Giddens concert God, I’m grateful for the womanwith songs from her Black heritage,Indigenous, Gaelic, Southern heritage,and her insistence on caringfor the safety of listeners. I am grateful for restaurantswhere I sit outdoors,libraries and local storesstill with curbside pickup,ventilated, “time-visit” museums,strained, stressed, creative schools,(and the saints who work in them), church staff and… Read More
Saturday Prayer, September 4, 2021
Giving thanks for the Baja Fairy Duster God, I’m grateful the Baja Fairy Duster,”Calliandra californica, attractspollinators and hummingbirdsand its seeds like dry pea podsfeed chaparral and desert animals. I give thanks for its many gifts, andhow the beauty of another regionstartles me into experiencing my own,with apples red-ripeningand schoolchildren comparingWonder Woman to dinosaurs on masksin… Read More
Saturday Prayer, July 31, 2021
Didn’t quite make it all the way up the stairs God, I pray today for all whodon’t quite make it up the stairsof a day or a dream,or maybe the treads and risersof what seems like a whole life – because they are so weary,or there are tacks and splinters,in the form of criticizing words,or… Read More
Saturday Prayer, July 17, 2021
There is no such thing as the Poop Fairy God, you are not the Poop Fairyyou do not clean and bag my messesjust because I ask forgiveness. You call me to apologizefor the mean word, the betrayal,and to seek reconciliation. You call me to attemptrestitution as I canin for my personal unkindnessand deeds in which… Read More
Saturday Prayer, July 3, 2021
Prayer of the Chukar God, my grand-feathered onescame from Turkey,but home nests soon were nativein Idaho, some in Hawai’i. I was born in a box of chickssent to a gun range in New England,and I ran away (that’s what we do, run,for we cannot fly very fast.)We are easy for new shooters. I am grateful… Read More
Saturday Prayer, May29, 2021
Niwaskowôgan, Great Spirit,this prayer is first prayedon the homelands of Abenaki people,who have lived in the placenow called New Hampshiremore than 12,000 years,being part of the larger groupof Indigenous peoplenaming themselves Wabanaki,“People of the Dawn.” They and those who live herein these dayslook at the same sky and do not knowwhether it is daybreak or… Read More
Saturday Prayer
(May 15th is National Armadillo Day, I don’t know anything about armadillos, but May 23 is World Turtle Day and Pentecost, and I am thinking ahead to both. In the cemetery I met this my relation, slowly-enough paced to let me draw her with watercolor pencil. Where will she be in a week? Where will… Read More
Saturday Prayer, May 1, 2021
Prayer for International Workers Day God, we hear your voice singing …I relieved your shoulder of the burdenand your hands were freed from the basket. On this International Workers Day,we pray for justicefor workers everywhere –a living wage, workplace safeguards,affordable housing, child care,health care rightsun-tied to full-time hours,re-opening plans based in worker safetyrather than customer… Read More
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