Holy Love, it is in you I center my heart today. My heart that is delicate and fierce, whole and full of fragments. As I walk and think and feel through the experience of living, this day, I pray for freedom to cherish, the resolve to be truthful, the goodness to be mercy upon mercy… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Through all the trials and tribulations, the anxiety and fear, the changes and challenges, the loss and the grief, the endlessness of these days, may peace come. may peace come, if only for a moment. may peace come like a gentle breeze like the soft breath of a baby may peace come like the stillness… Read More
Monday Prayer
In the midst of all things–where alpha ends and omega begins, and the swirl of yesterdays give birth to this day–we seek the voice of your blessed Spirit. Ah, there it is, in the tempering breeze against the heat, and the cry of the hungry belly. It is there in the groan of our task… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Beloved
Let me sing for the Beloved, and let the Beloved sing for me: songs of delight and satisfaction, of discovery and renewal, of harmony and hope. Let me hum for the Beloved, and let the Beloved hum for me: lullabies of comfort and patience, of possibility and peace, of justice and love. Let me chant… Read More
Saturday Prayer: When Pastoral Duty Calls
When a shopping trip becomes an in-aisle counseling session; When a family dinner is interrupted by a needy text; When Saturday night out becomes Saturday night in front of the computer finishing a sermon; When the hair appointment gets postponed for a hospital visit; When a good night’s sleep is disrupted by frantic jotting of… Read More
Friday Prayer: This Bouquet Called Life
O Holy One, I did not expect this mixed bag of feelings in my grief: joy, peace, bitterness, denial, hope, sadness, anger and dark humor swirl around me. Like a bunch of wildflowers, they each have a place in my understanding and coping. I hop between them like a bumblebee, afraid that, in my feelings,… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Encouragement
We thank you, O God, for encouragement: for friends who strengthen our hearts by showing up to cheer us on, for friends who send gifs and thumbs up who wish us well. We thank you that this encouragement builds us up, makes us braver, makes us stronger, draws us on. We thank you and praise… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
I don’t know God. I am not feeling it, or You today. It’s me, I know. Here’s the thing– I want to ask You what the hell is going to happen with this mess we are in with the climate crisis? Not to mention, all the other dysfunction and inhumanity and crabbiness… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
The heat of August, Michigan, USA, to be precise, heavy, muggy air filled with the clamor of cicadas singing their mating song. Occasionally broken by the violence of a cicada wasp, stinging dying, implanting, in order for another life. Google it. Garden vegetables of lush, thick vines, or bolting lettuce, and toppling tomatoes demanding to… Read More
Monday Prayer
Cool breath of shade and delight of all creation, we crave the respite of your holy way. Whether the path is wide or narrow, dotted with blooms or bumpy with stones, we discover the gifts that await us in each nook and cranny; the carefully crafted petal and leaf, fragrances sweet and pungent, silence punctuated… Read More
