A friend calls this liturgical season the Festival of Lists. In this season of all the lists all the liturgies all the last-minute glitches we ask, O God, for your blessing: A blessing of a photocopier that keeps copying. A blessing of volunteers who bear with one another and with their pastors with generosity and… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
After a semi-restless night of sleeping, I awoke at dawn, the birds singing me fully awake. In that moment, I heard You say “Today, beloved, just listen. Receive what you hear, and hold it in your heart.” Help me listen and receive in all of my moments today. Amen. Rev. Karla Miller is pastor of… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Ostriches
On this Lenten way, O God of every life-giving way we pray for a new thing to spring forth: for the path through stormy waters and for those pummeled by the storm until a dry path becomes clear; for the avenues toward peace and for those surrounded by warring chariots until the rage of war… Read More
Saturday Prayer
Saturday Sabado Sabbath It should be But Dear God, When else would those committee meetings happen? The shopping get done? The chores untouched during the week? Those final worship tasks and sermon tweaks? Saturday Sabado Sabbath Is it okay God, if for some of us it is not “a day”? But, perhaps Sabbath is found… Read More
Friday Prayer: Just a breath
O Holy One, I see you in the season’s turning. The length of days, the migrating flocks, the tasks in my garden, the rhythm of the Church year. In the whirlwind, I get distracted. My intentions float away like the blossoms loosened from the tree. But just a breath, and once again I see your… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Weary
“I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish” Jeremiah 31: 25 For the weary, we pray: For those who have waited, and hoped and watched but for whom the better day has not yet dawned… Satisfy the weary, replenish the faint For those whose bodies are worn by working and… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
What happened to March? It blew in with ice and wind offered a few hints of warmth and sun, of what’s to come. Now it’s seeping away a day of gentle rain washing away the grime of winter. What happened to March? After a harsh and seemingly endless winter, March blew in and before I… Read More
Monday Prayer: rolled away
Blessed One, who rolls away from us the disgrace of all things, restore us to the light of welcome and becoming. Lift us from the mire of shortcomings and disappointments, poor choices and heartbreaks, that we may see the glory of your countenance that revels in our souls. Join us to one another in celebrations… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Notifications
O God, We turn toward home gingerly. We look ourselves in the eye and ponder our crimes of heart and mind and wallet and appetite. Sometimes the way is hard to find. Dear God, We wait for your arrival. We forgot to bring our chargers; how will we know you are here without our notifications?… Read More
Thursday Prayer
If you’ll help me I promise to try to trust you enough to believe to really believe in your wild and radical love that it might even be for me in a very real way and to let you hold this sin of mine. The one I like to carry because I think I deserve… Read More
