Creator God, Oh Holy One, who loves differences and made the world delightfully diverse, thank you. Help your creature, especially we humans, who fall away from your expansive love for variety and instead treat some people as more valuable than other people. Help us to see the beauty, the grace, the vibrancy, the life! In… Read More
Gracious God, we give you thanks for all the blessings of this life –for family, friends, for home and food, and workfor the coming Spring, for warmer days aheadfor the gift of your son who leads us in this life. Loving God, we offer up these prayers of concern this day –for those struggling to rebuild livesfrom natural… Read More
Morning sun, slow to rise like these old bones of mine with muscle aches from years of life, work, stress, love, time (Holy Week!) cresting the horizon, rising warming, grateful, and sometimes graceful, but always thankful. amen. The Rev. Terri C. Pilarski is an Episcopal priest serving a church in Dearborn, MI. She is a… Read More
Holy One. I realized last night that if I were to pray the names of the 500,000+ people in the USA who have now died from COVID-19 it would take me a year of praying 24 hours a day to pray all the names. That’s 1,500 people a day, or about one person a minute… Read More
Prayer poem and photo by Terri C. Pilarski The Rev. Terri C. Pilarski is an Episcopal priest serving a church in Dearborn, MI. She is a long time blogger (seekingauthenticvoice.blogspot.com) and member of the RevGalBlogPals since 2006. RevGalBlogPals encourages you to share our blog posts via email or social media. We do not grant permission… Read More
Holy One, as we come to the end of this seemingly endless year, I pray for what has been and what will be. I pray for those who are suffering, those who have died, those who carry on, those who hope and those who long for hope. I pray for mercy and grace. I pray… Read More
Last night the planets aligned, Jupiter and Saturn. Some say that this great conjunction will herald a new day, which will influence the world for the next 200 years. One can only hope that the world is turning just a little closer to what God must surely desire. So my prayer this morning is a… Read More
I live in SE Michigan, on the border of Detroit. My little spot in the world has been in the news a lot this year, at least in the news in the USA. The presidential election put us in the spotlight as a “battleground” state that could determine the outcome. Then again when numerous requests… Read More
God of Love, Come forth for usMay our Lives magnify you Surprise Us, shower favorOn all your people, (me, you) Have mercy on the needyTonight, each day, (always) Mighty One, heal the brokenheal us to be your hands, heart Bless our lives that we can bea sign of your heart, your hope God of Love,… Read More
Holy and gracious God,the giver of light and life,we thank you for this gift of life.We thank you for those who come into our lives as prophets,pointing us toward that most precious gift,your Son. We thank you for those we travel with usas we seek to know more fully who we areas your people. Come… Read More
