God of all creatures, as I sit in my car, I’m watching the sparrow on a branch, the feathers intricately woven together, with more shades of brown than I knew existed. This careful construction of this tiny, ordinary bird lifts my heart, as evidence of your care. If you have this much love for the… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
O God, as we grow weary of masks, and distance, and not hugging the people we love, we meet up with our own lack of endurance, and start to understand the depth of your patience. O God, as we grow weary of the constant drumbeat of inequality, we meet up with our own fickle love… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Eternal God, as our statues fall and our streets get new names, strengthen our resolve so our inner will matches the outer changes. Give us, we pray, the gifts of endurance, of a deep breath, of clarity, and of seeing our lies and living for truth. May we embrace change like a friend, instead… Read More
Monday Prayer
Infinite God, who still numbers the hairs on our heads, and who counts our value, one by one, we call out to you today the names of the people who touch our lives. Strangers, who pursue justice and force change. Beloved aunties and grandparents, neighbors, now seen at the end of the driveway, and co-workers… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God of wholeness, take us, we ask, not back to any kind of normal where we forget the gains won by bodies in the streets, ignore again the cries of outrage, and pooh-pooh courage in tennis shoes. Take us past our chosen ignorance, our sneaky use of privilege, our unequal burdens. Shape us instead, we… Read More
Narrative Lectionary: A Mystery Gift (1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57)
This scripture is particularly poignant in this pandemic time, when we’re confronting death in different, more demanding ways than we usually do. Some of us are overwhelmed with the number of deaths around us, and have lost people to death much too soon. All of our lives have changed in response to the lethality of… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Meanwhile, O God, the usual things keep happening. The woman is still sleeping at the bus stop, the angry partner still raising a violent hand, the exhausted parent still creating a routine for the child with autism. The man with broken shoes is still lifting the dumpster lid to look for food. the day laborer… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Healing God, boost our collective immune system, we pray, so that we might fight off thoughtless prejudice, self-centeredness, easy blame, and using old tropes to soothe new fears. Ramp up our spiritual immunity, and defend us from despair. Engage our emotional defenses, building strong hearts and healthy minds. Give us, we ask, antibodies to the… Read More
Narrative Lectionary: Mystery Gifts (Acts 3:1-10)
At the big intersection near my home, four gentlemen have divided up the corners. In their system, each of them asks for money on only one corner. Three of the four work their corners most days, but even when someone is missing for a day, no one takes over his corner. Each man works a… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
O Lord, you know all things, so you know that Wednesday is Hump Day, when we come closer to the end than the beginning. And yet, we feel no closer to the end of the deaths, to the end of sickness, fear and isolation, to a return to health for those who are ill, a… Read More
