What holds you down, keeps you grounded? What keeps you in line, provides accountability? What helps you find your bearings, your plumb line, your skeg? On a kayak, a skeg is a small fin on the bottom rear of the vessel, used to keep the kayak steady (more or less) on the course of its… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Whirlwinds
Through the chaos, O Eternal God, grant us a vision. In the midst of trouble, O Merciful God, grant us a clear path. Before the cup of sorrows, O Faithful God, grant us a portion of joy. Until the idolatry of power ends, O Jealous God, grant us a spirit of generosity. From the world’s… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Wilderness
We long for your voice like a deer longs for water, but no, Lord — do not put your voice in our ears and our hearts, for it might split us open and rend us from the comforts and assumptions with which we have clothed faith. We long for your presence like a ship longs… Read More
Trinity Sunday Prayer
When you pray, say: Our Creator, our Justification, our Advocate in heaven — hallowed be thy Name, thy Body, thy Presence. Your Realm come, your Imagination fulfill, your Peace arrive in all ways & all places. Be our Bread, our Breath, and our Beckoning. Jealous One, forgive our self worship. Just One, save us from… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Trinity Sunday
Wisdom raises her voice. At intersections and entrances, she proclaims to the people: “Before the earth, I was. Before the springs and mountains, I was. Before the skies and seas, I was. I have always been the Inspiration and the Delight.” (Proverbs 8:1-4 & 22-31, Revised Rachel Version) In the Revised Common Lectionary readings for… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Pentecost
Holy Spirit, Wild Wind, on this day of Pentecost we are gathered. We are alternately full of fire and fizzling, courageous and tentative, gifted by dreams and haunted by worries. In other words, this holy day finds us to be still wholly human. Will you fill us up? Will you awe our hearts so that… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Melted
What the hell do any of us know, O Eternal Mystery? While we worship constancy and might, mountains melt and remold like wax. While we sing hymns in echoing caverns, the Spirit waits upon those in prison. While we pray to love our enemies, the Church itself nurtures violence. While we thirst for truth and… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Egos in the Way
Praise the LORD! Praise the Sovereign from the heavens! Praise the Great One, all angels and celestial beings! Praise the Eternal Light, you sun and moon and stars! (Psalm 148) Can you imagine being the sun — 1,391,000 km in diameter, more than 4,500,000,000 years old, the center of the solar system, the hope of… Read More
Sunday Prayer
You who are our strength, you who are our salvation: We have known your presence and we have doubted it. We have known pain and we have known delight. We have known peace and we have known fear. Through it all, we confess: your steadfast love endures forever. You who are our sanctuary, you who… Read More
Easter Sunday Prayer
Let us do what is right, with prayer and praise: We rejoice in your renewal, O Creator — alleluia, amen — and we celebrate the labor to which we are called. We rejoice that we are not surrendered to death — alleluia, amen — and we celebrate your name on this day. We preach the women’s… Read More
