Breathe on me breath of God Fill me with life anew that I may love what you do love and do what you would do. This hymn has been my earworm for Pentecost A time of ordinations of life transitions of challenges and hope. Help me, Oh God to live as the person you call… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
There are words inside of me, challenging, difficult words emotional, reactive words words that reveal my fear words that rise up again because I am confronted with old emotions, long resolved – or so I thought – which need to be worked through again. What do I do with these words? If I keep them… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: It’s still Easter
This Sunday, the fourth Sunday in the Easter Season for those of us following the RCL, continues the story of the formation of the early church as told in the Book of Acts. This week we have Peter branding out beyond the “norms” of Jewish members in the church to the uncircumcised Gentiles. It’s radical,… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Holy and Gracious God, speaking into our lives May we hear, deeply, may You sound-through us May we be your body, hands, feet, heart Reaching out to others may we extend your love. Inbreaking God, stir us, we pray To care for the broken, Hungry, needy, sick, bereaved, And all who have lost their way.… Read More
Tuesday Prayer: Easter
O God! open us to your Paschal mystery of love. Open us as you were opened for us in love. God of all being Reaching out your hand in love May we take the hand extended, open for us. And may we offer the same extended love, all. Amen. The Rev. Terri C.… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Easter
We’ve done it. Travelled the journey of Lent. Moved through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and (for some of us) The Great Vigil of Easter. Now, we’re headed to Easter morning. What will you be preaching on this morning? Are you compelled to tell the story from the perspective of the women? The one’s who… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of hope God of life Now begins the holiest of weeks The Lenten journey concludes through pain sorrow despair illness loss fear anger hatred vitriol grief Through a (self) examination of all the ways we work against You – against your hopes and dreams O God for creation against Your love poured out in… Read More
Tuesday Prayer: Spring
This morning, although it was still dark, the birds were singing in full chorus. I let the dogs outside and noticed that the air was almost warm. I thought Spring is here. Finally. Easter is in two weeks, and in the meantime the last week of Lent and Holy week still need to be travelled… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
What happened to March? It blew in with ice and wind offered a few hints of warmth and sun, of what’s to come. Now it’s seeping away a day of gentle rain washing away the grime of winter. What happened to March? After a harsh and seemingly endless winter, March blew in and before I… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: Faithfully Political
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your… Read More
