Help us, Opener of Eyes, to see you. Even amidst the daily and mundane tasks that seem to occupy so much of our brains. Help us to look for the little moments when you appear in unexpected giggles, printers that obey, passwords that work the first time, tomatoes on sale when we need them. Thank… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Plumb Line
I’ve been trying to climb your plumb line, O God, as if it is a measure of success or a ladder to security. When the wall showed signs of toppling, I leapt to the line to rise above it all. Forgive me. When the locusts swarmed and the harvest was threatened before it could mature,… Read More
Friday Prayer
bent but not broken wounded yet still breathing bravely refusing to silently disappear this is how I have been of late, God i am grateful. my gratitude does not wipe away my rage but does allow me to move, and, act, and show-up, in ways where rage doesn’t take over… it just glides off me… Read More
Thursday Prayer
A prayer about entering the weird world of retirement Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Thank you, God for the tent that kept us dry last night that the cooler is still cold that the bear didn’t come for the way Lake Huron thunders for the warmth of fast food restaurants and the joy of hot coffee. Help us, I pray, to be open to your gifts, aware of the… Read More
Sunday Prayer: If Only
if only, my god, the river of healing left its banks to come heal us where we stand with our feet stuck in the mud if only, my god, the letter of peace penned itself to the angry mobs and violent landlords who worship cruelty if only, my god, the silver coins and gold bullions… Read More
Saturday Prayer, July 2, 2022
I was watching some children prepare their bicycles and tricycles to be part of a 4th of July parade and because I love all things bicycle, this rolled out. Thanks …God, for wheels bringing usinto creation’s beauty,we give thanks.For leaving a small carbon wheel-tread,we give thanks.For places in the world where bikesare favored transportationand give… Read More
Friday Prayer
Dear God, For the sake of our children, all children May all love be acceptable and a source of joy and pride for more than one month a year May freedom be more than a one-day holiday for some, while many remain colonized, enslaved, hidden May the Church reclaim our role to accompany one another,… Read More
Remembering to Breathe, A Prayer
God, There’s so much to pray about Broken promises in the United States Supreme Court Babies getting vaccinations (Amen, Alleluia) wars, monkeypox, the rising inflation prices. God my brain is so full of prayers, I feel like I’m going to burst. So I think I’m just going to breathe… And pray God help us….(breathe in)… Read More
Sunday Prayer
God, build us into your house, a house of living stones built on the rock. Enable us to live as your exiles, resident aliens in a foreign land. All of us belonging to you. No one missing. No one forgotten. Knowing you have your eye on us. Knowing that you are good. In but not… Read More