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
Saturday Prayer, March 20, 2021
Rev. Dr. Fran Bogle, captions her photograph this way: “Threatened roseate spoonbills slowly returning from near extinction are still striving to thrive. They flash hope every time they open their wings. I’d like to be that kind of flasher. How about you?” God, I want to look in the mirrorand see my inner roseate spoonbill.… Read More
Saturday Prayer, March 6, 2021
Nancy Donovan took the picture below when it was 12℉, and the snow was falling. She is not a church-goer but she called her picture “Lilac resurrection.” God, I give you thanks,not so much for the Eastercoming in twenty-nine more days,but the everyday eastersthat look like … home from the hospital after covid,ninety meetings in… Read More
Saturday Prayer, January 31, 2021
God, I give you thanksfor the people in my life who cannot see,including my mother and father,who teach me to listen,smell and taste and feelevery alive surface of the world, and for friends who cannot hearand make an orchestrafrom all the other senses. I pray for patience with thosewho use “see” to mean understand,“vision” for… Read More
Saturday Prayer, January 16, 2021
( reflecting 1 Samuel 3) God, you who want to wake me,shake me, and just have someone to talk toin the middle of the night, I pray gratitude for the Eli’sin my life, the so-imperfect people,who were poor parents,or poor judges,who made mistake after mistake,avoided naming injustice,missed God-moments in their own lives. Yet they were… Read More
