We have done our best, O God. Well, not our best. Sometimes not even a half-hearted attempt at “best.” But we have done … something … and of course it was never going to last because time is finite and people are too, but, O God! We didn’t prepare for death when it was set… Read More
Friday Prayer
God who calls us to rest, to release Remind us what is ours and what is not Allow us to embrace the many lessons While acknowledging that for all things there is a season You call us to love one another as you have loved us This love does not cater but liberates This love… Read More
Thursday Prayer
Give me ears to hear. Help me to use the whisper that I hear to turn my full attention to those who are speaking. Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God, you might have peeked over my shoulder and noticed that the last time I wrote it was entitled “The Last Time”. And here I am again, the last time. This time, this last time, I give thanks for the funny stories, for the debates that sometimes got a bit, erm, strident, over lipstick that… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Praying as Jesus Taught
Thirty sparrows clamor around the bird feederwhile a squirrel plots its route to the same,and I wonder if this is faithfulness:to know what is needed and to crave it solely. Give us this day our daily bread,for you will give what is good, O God,Now let us be faithful in receiving it. The hounds of… Read More
Friday Prayer
Creation understands interdependence Embraces it, models it Reveals to us that in our connection we have our very being Creation is calling us back to life To accountability To communion To joy To healing To freedom I pray we humans get it … The Creator is conspiring on our behalf Revealing a living hope Filling… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
According to her brother, the singing never stopped in the house that she founded. Sister of Naucratius and Gregory of Nyssa, she chose to leave behind wealth and status, abandoning everything to move to an ancestral home near a river, where her haven of fervent women learned the scriptures, and to sing, and to heal… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Complicated Gifts
We thought it was a gift, the basket of summer fruit: strawberries red as a rose, peaches wet as the dew, watermelons sweet as your love. But no, God. The basket was a judgment of all we have taken for granted and all we have coveted for ourselves. We boast in what we did not… Read More
Saturday Prayer, July 16, 2022
God, I come to sunrise from newsof a newly seen nebulathat is a birthplace of stars,a phone message wanting my opinionon the politics of my troubled nation,worry about a friend’s health,the bowed-head yellowof yesterday’s grocery store sunflower,and regret for hasty, unkind words. I come to this sunrise,the one sentby my friend across the world,with her… Read More
Friday Prayer
It is pretty obvious we know how to create beauty You have gifted us with imagination, Holy Creator Its living evidence is all around us We can abide with creation, as part of creation You believe it, God and declared us all good Do we? Cuz we refuse to put down our guns or pass… Read More
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