Bless the LORD, all people, and praise God’s infinite wisdom. We did not lay earth’s foundations and we did not set the breadth of the sky. We cannot call rain from the clouds or command the lightening to strike. But, O God, we have been stricken here between earth and sky, and we have been… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Lament
Answer us, we dare pray, O God of our groaning. Reclaim what has been cast away, O God of our weariness. Seek out the pieces of our hearts, lest they be scattered by the wind. In your goodness, let there be a light to keep us company as we cry. In your mercy, let there… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Mouthful
What is in your mouth? What words, what complaints, what praises, what bitterness? This Sunday’s Revised Common Lectionary texts offer quite a mouthful: Job’s mouth is unapologetically filled with complaints and arguments, as he rages, “Oh, that I knew where I might find God in order to make my case!” (Job 23:3-4) A rich man… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Laying It Down
It is too much, O God, even on the good days: too much to hold love and imagination, too much to hold injustice and despair. Will you hold us? Will you hold it all so that we can lay down everything we believed ourselves able to carry? Yours is time, O God our Call and… Read More
Sunday Prayer: For Womxn
Have mercy on our tears, O God, for we have wept ever since Hagar’s heart broke over Ishmael and Rachel lamented her children. If we have won your favor, let our tears nourish protest. Have mercy on our rage, O God, for we have said “no” to death since the days of Shiphrah and Puah… Read More
Friday Festival: Mindfulness
Mindfulness is not my strong suit. Not even close. But in these rage-filled days … rage-filled months, rage-filled years, and — let’s be honest — rage-filled generations, because when in all of history has evil not pounded against the well-being of those it strives to oppress and derived its very life from the breath of… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Identity Crisis
Who am I? Who are you? Who is Jesus? Who do people say Jesus is? We are followers. We are deniers. We are Satan. We are also teachers. We are fire. We are fruit. We are the criers. We are the delivered. We are the unashamed. We are the helped. We are the wayward and… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Solomon’s Prayer
O God, our Creator and our Sovereign, there is no God like you — not in heaven and certainly not on earth — no other god who keeps promises and is faithful in love. Our lives are before you, day by day, and our hearts are full of wonder as they strive to know you… Read More
Sunday Prayer
Be pleased to love us, O God our God, as the mother hen loves her chicks, as the bread loves to nourish the hungry. Be pleased to love us, O God our God, for love is your essence and character, hospitality and creativity are your way of being. Be pleased to love us, O God… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Leadership Lessons
Solomon, in all his idealism, painted a retrospective image of his father King David as a “very nice guy.” So God rewarded Solomon with discernment, wealth, and longevity. Wisdom, in all her discipline, built a house, tended a farm & vineyard, and set an ample banquet table for the whole community. So God sent the… Read More
