Oh Lord, Blessed are the nice people, The listening people, The smiling people. Blessed are those Whose hearts break with yours, Who carry your protest signs when you give up, Who link arms in solidarity. Blessed are the exhausted people, The discouraged and broken people, The preyed-upon. And Lord, Blessed are your ministers, Your prophets… Read More
Friday Prayer: Guide our steps
Holy One We are on this life’s road of hope and unknowing. We travel with burdens, questions, and fears. Guide our steps Smooth the way Comfort our hearts. Show us that you are here and encourage our weary souls until we finally see our hearts’ destination and you. Amen. Rev. Deborah Vaughn is a hospice… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Unfolding
Holy One, We watch things unfold, day by day, sometimes hour by hour, never really knowing why or when there will be a turn of events or changes in our plans. Unfolding, slowly, gently, melding, You help us in synchronicity with Your Grace. Sometimes we won’t listen. Sometimes we bolt the other way. Always, always,… Read More
Friday Prayer: Rest
Holy One, We have sung and chanted and prayed and exulted. We have alleluia’d and amen’ed. We have moved the half-dead flowers and re-set our churches for Eastertide. We have studied and prepared our next sermon series. We have scheduled all the “after-Easter” tasks. We are tired. Lord, After you taught and preached and healed… Read More
Friday Prayer
O Holy One, as Creation holds its breath, we wait we ponder we search our souls. we doubt we step back in fear we fail you. grant us peace give us hope clear our minds as we listen for that first whisper from the tomb, as we watch for that first glimmer of resurrection light.… Read More
Friday Prayer: Out of breath
Holy One, I am out of breath exhausted worrying about details writing list upon list of tasks shopping and baking researching and writing finding more volunteers calling the florist fitting in one more visit calling while I’m driving (hands-free, of course) and hoping I don’t forget something important. My professors in seminary never warned me… Read More
Friday Prayer: Just a breath
O Holy One, I see you in the season’s turning. The length of days, the migrating flocks, the tasks in my garden, the rhythm of the Church year. In the whirlwind, I get distracted. My intentions float away like the blossoms loosened from the tree. But just a breath, and once again I see your… Read More
Friday Prayer: Longings
Creator God, Like the hungry fox staring at the empty bird feeder I long for things that will not satisfy my hunger for you. Remind me when I yearn for the lost chances, the broken dreams, the end of a road, that you are still there, And I can be fully satisfied by the bounty… Read More
Friday Prayer: Glow
Holy One, Sometimes we see through the bare branches to your beauty and majesty reflected in nature. And sometimes we lose sight of your mighty forest because of the trees. Focus our hearts on the waiting world: who wars and does not make peace, who cries out and does not hear your answers, who looks… Read More
Friday Prayer: Be Still
“Be still,” You say, as a thousand questions come to mind, and my prayer time is jumbled and lost in a sea of worry. “And know,” You remind me, as I question my motives, and feel doubts creep up and rock my boat. “I AM,” You whisper, when my memories of yesterdays and uncertain tomorrows… Read More
