Photo from Indivisible Denton rally August 14, 2017 – Denton, Texas / Mary Beth Butler photo Dear Friend, We rally, we write, we pray, we weep But it is not enough. Those of us with privilege must step up, or continue to, and say, NO. To violence, to racism, to Nazism, to fascism. To our similarly… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Dear Friend, When I am with a 3-year-old everything is RIGHT NOW We aren’t worried about yesterday, or tomorrow, or next week. We aren’t holding any grudges. We are just doing whatever we are doing, this very minute. Help me to meet you as a very three, to put away all the dizzying swirl of… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Prayer for Boundaries O God, you set upon our borders sentinels who are never silent and watchers who never sleep; guard and protect the boundaries of my soul. You shelter us under the shadow of your wings; create within me a safe place in which to heal. Speak tenderly to my spirit, Holy Mother, and… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
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
