Divine Spirit,
come.
Breathe your peace into our cities
and our nations, we pray,
and quell the violence that threatens
to overtake us.
Make space for us to meet
our siblings in Christ … Read More
Saturday Prayer
My friend Dayalan Devanesen, director of Roofs for the Roofless, of Chennai, India, sent me a photo of Gurdon Brewster’s sculpture given to him by his mother. It is ‘Christ Dancing Off the Cross’. On the last of the waiting nights for whatever the “power” is going to be, it seems important to hold carefully… Read More
Friday Prayer
God who already knows my prayers- I am out of words that don’t sound trite. I believe that you are already showing mercy. Let my prayer, instead, be the work of my hands, my feet, my mouth, my earsTo daily, hourly, minute by minuteDismantle the systems of racism and racial oppression in my countryAnd across… Read More
Thursday Prayer
There’s a song we sing in worship. About God coming to turn the world around. About hearts singing and justice fires burning. Burning… About God delivering us from the conqueror’s crushing grasp. About justice tearing tyrants from their throne. TEARING THEM. The song remembers that Jesus said not a stone will be left on stone.… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
WTF!? George couldn’t breathe God! Why couldn’t they hear him? Did you hear George crying out, God? I am holding on to the hope that with every precious breath we are yet allowed to take— you are with us. But, damn! How much more can we endure, God? I must confess that it is hard to… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Holy Spirit, Holy Breath- Our black neighbors can’t breathe. The ones in power have knees cutting into their necks robbing them of air and of many tomorrows. Our black neighbors can’t breathe. They wonder what the “nice white lady” will say when she calls the police for no reason. And then what will happen… Our… Read More
Monday Prayer
Is this really what it has come to? Is my raging in the street my disbelief at bad behaviour my shock at the lack of integrity my anger at the gross misbehaviour just a blind rattling? Is this what it has come to? The grieving parents the lonely spouse the orphaned children the crushed loved… Read More
Sunday Prayer: a prayer for life
Before the beginning of the world, Lord,
you knew this moment would come.
Before the beginning of the world,
you prepared for it …
you called us to follow … Read More
Friday Prayer
The day after the Ascension, Mary of Magdala thought she glimpsed Jesus, in the market. Out of the corner of her eye, she could have sworn she saw the light tan of his robe, a flicker of movement that her heart recognized. When she turned to look more directly, all she saw were strangers all… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God, please teach us how to pray With our vote With our wallets With our masks With our bodies With our work God, please teach us how to pray Through the fear Through the struggle Through the injustice Through the hate Through the complacency God, please teach us how to pray In love For… Read More
