Oh Holy One, How quickly we forget that you brought us onto this planet as travelers on the same road, hungry ones in need of food, tired ones in need of rest. How quickly we turn on one another and question instead of believe, accuse instead of listen, attack instead of trust. We aim at… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Pursued by Goodness
Goodness and mercy all my days, shall surely follow me… Dear God, I am trying to write my sermon for Good Shepherd Sunday and I keep singing Brother James’ Air and in particular those lines about goodness and mercy. The verb is apparently a really active one. Not so much follow as pursue. So I… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Ah, Holy One who is Many, I pray today for… Gosh, I don’t know and I do. It’s a beautiful cool and sunny day, and the forsythia is blooming here, and it feels like a respite. So, I am grateful. I pray my gratefulness today. There is much sorrow and deep pain and anguish in… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
To my Lord Jesus Christ who came into the world to save those who were lost You who did leave the ninety and nine sheep in order to look for the lost one please look for me in the path of my errors where I hide myself from you and my fellow humans. You, the… Read More
Monday Prayer
“April is the cruelest month,” the poet T. S. Eliot writes, and we are living that reality in a world caught between the tensions and apparent contradictions that comprise this life. The shifting sands of need among the beloved of God require nimble feet for those who seek and serve. Balance, you say? We do… Read More
Sunday Prayer: What Wondrous Love
What love you have for us, O Merciful One: the sparrow chirrups faithfully and the daffodil sprouts through snow, joy greets us daily with the sunrise and grace finds us every night. What love you have for us, O Forgiving One: that new visions reveal your relentless hope though the world is overwrought with war,… Read More
Friday Prayer: sowing our prayers
Oh Lord, The planning and planting, The yearning and dreaming, The unrealized hopes of last year All haunt us. We doubt ourselves, We wonder if we heard your voice, We name our failures, We stare down our accusers. But in this season Of setting buds and growing fruit, Of watering and fertilizing, Of tending and… Read More
Thursday Prayer: the eyebrows of Jesus!
Your bright, compassionate eyes look kindly on all who ask You for grace and mercy, in love. Blessed be Your eyes, eyelids and wonderful eyebrows! May Your lovely, kind vision be praised forever. Amen. Birgitta of Sweden in Incandescence (Butcher, 2005) Dear Jesus, To be fair, I have never considered your eyebrows, nor your intestines. So… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God… It is quiet here, now, in this room. The giant clock ticks, Beyond the window I see clouds and blue sky and just a whisper of wind. It is quiet here, now, in my heart-room. I breathe just a grateful sigh of relief. Alleluia, alleluia. The luxury of this still point of being with… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Father, Mother, God, Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days. For then we have you to lean upon. Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days, for then we can share that which we have with those who have less. And thank you for your presence during the… Read More
