O God: Give me strength to live another day; Let me not turn coward before its difficulties or prove recreant to its duties; Let me not lose faith in other people; Keep me sweet and sound of heart, in spite of ingratitude, treachery, or meanness; Preserve me from minding little stings or giving them; Help… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Good morning, Friend! I had a glimmer today that the upended way this world feels, the funhouse aspect of it all is really a gift I’ve heard of “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” and here we have it. Famine, massacre, -isms galore, church ugliness, world ugliness and in the meantime, we move ahead… Read More
Keep on Coming
Come, Holy Spirit! It’s a Tuesday and the thrill of Pentecost is behind us We are again in Ordinary Time a long stretch of green if you look at it that way. Keep us seeing red! Keep our fires burning, sparks flying! We have work to do, and we mustn’t get tired, bored, sluggish. We… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Dear Friend, At a concert, and some of the people are annoying, and some pretty drunk and the ones in front won’t sit down and I say to you, Help Me. I think of Emmaeus, where you were walking beside the disciples and they didn’t even know you. They didn’t know you until you broke… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Dear Friend, Holy Week has come and gone again another observance, in time, of the timeless. And now we are to enjoy Fifty Days of Easter. Forgive us if we approach the Fifty Day Feast a little slowly We are joyous! We are grateful! And yet, there’s a need for things to settle back into… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Jesus, my Friend, I want to say, “I got nothing. I can’t pray.” And I guess that’s what I’m here to say today. I can’t pray. I can only cry. I am crying for the violence of the world and our country and communities for our schools and airplanes and in chemical attacks and for refugees turned… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Dear Friend, New life in every season in every place and right next door there is death. My heart is not big enough to hold it. Please, hold it for me. Amen. Mary Beth Butler is an Episcopal layperson in North Texas. She is a retired university administrator, paving contractor, and occasional blogger. RevGalBlogPals encourages… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Sunday’s psalm in the Revised Common Lectionary is Psalm 130 Out Of The Deep (Psalm 130) Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice. O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Snow. There is so much snow in the U.S. northeast. And where I live, Spring. Shirtsleeve weather! It seems impossible for both to be true at once Our world is so small and also so enormous. Remind us that we are all within your arms Amen. Mary Beth Butler is an Episcopal layperson in North… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Dear Friend, Good morning! I am praying for daily things, hospitality, sweeping the floor, calling my elected representatives Healing for injuries and griefs large and small Grateful for family and home and buds on oak trees. Help me be your person in the world today. Thank you. Mary Beth Butler is an Episcopal layperson in… Read More
