From dawn to dusk, from dusk to dawn,O God guide our breaths, our lives, our loves. We are fragile and frail, O Eternal Glory. We are so full of pride that we downplay our faults, and so full of faults that we downplay our possibilities. What is the sky to a speck of dust? What… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Peace
Peace to your path, winding into the night; peace toward your path, moving toward the light. Read More
Sunday Prayer: Forsaken
Consider, O God, those pounding at the door for your justice, for your steadfast love, for your deliverance. Will you not answer? We are fainting on your front porch, weary with grief. Can you not spare a cup of mercy? In your house is peace; will you not let us in? In your hands is… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Sunset
Now I lay me down to sleep.I pray the sun’s rays not to weepor linger o’er our earthly achesbut whisper “peace” as stars awake. Now to rest in awe of night,to wonder as celestial heightssing lullabies of mysterythat put our turbulence at ease. And now to trust within our fleshthe kinship lived in every breathwith… Read More
Sunday Psalm: Arise and Come Away
From greed, from vanity,from despair, from doubt,come away, o my soul.Arise and come away. From apathy, from anger,from mistrust, from fear,come away, o my soul.Arise and come away. Breathe in love, breathe out peace.Notice life as it touches your skin.Arise and come away, o my soul —there are a thousand deaths, but come to life.… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Cloudy
There are days when I do not mind your mystery, O Holy One,and days when I can even declare it to be the good news. But, oh! What I really want is for your cloudiness to clear,for your words to distill themselves distinctly, simply, for your history to guarantee my future, and for my heartto… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Adoration
A thousand burnt offerings, O Wisdom,not given in shame or self-righteousnessbut in a flood of awe: You are beautiful. A thousand burnt offerings, O Wisdom,to bring incense to the table you setfor those humble enough to drink there. A thousand burnt offerings, O Wisdom,and may their smoke be a bitter cloudto the enemies of truth… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Psalm 130
To you, O God, we hold out our hearts.Deal gently with them, we pray.Increase their love with your forgiveness;soften their bitterness with your peace. Until peace comes,we will wait and watch. To you, O God, we hold out our hungers.Have mercy on them, we pray.Rain down with manna to renew our hope;quench our despair from… Read More
Sunday Prayer: How the Mighty Have Fallen
Your glory, O God, stands triumphantin high places and low,in mountains and valleys,across rivers and oceans that once bled.How the mighty have fallen from their thrones!How the satisfied have been reduced to hunger!How the fortresses have crumbled to piecesbefore the powerful wind of your whisper! Your voice, O God, has heaped hot coalsupon the evil… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Giants & Storms & Fears, Oh My!
There is Goliath, o my God, and there and there!Do not let my heart fail before these giantsin trust that even giants are limited. The wind is rising, o my God, and the waves are crashing!Do not let my peace be broken or my faith swept away,secure in knowing I too am made of water… Read More
