In dark cells
and pits of despair …
held captive by clanging chains
and by agonizing grief
and by debts that cannot possibly
be repaid … Read More
Friday Prayer: Note to Self from Psalm 103
Note to self: Bless the Lord. We’re in the middle of a marathon slog, but God has not abandoned us. Intermittent joys have sustained us beyond what we could have imagined. The Lord has stayed our hand from slapping the foolish and, sometimes, from typing the thing we cannot take back. Come on, soul. It… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of Creation, As the fires mar the landscape of California, may your children discover ways to extinguish this great inferno quickly. Keep our siblings in harm’s way safe. Create avenues of escape for all your living beings. May the winds die down, the rains fall, the heat lessen. Oh how we forget that we… Read More
Monday Prayer: Labor
God of All Labor I wonder: When you created the waters did your arm muscles sing like the arms of the workers who haul wet sheets in hotel laundry rooms? Or did you nonchalantly SNAP the world into being as they snap towels while they fold them? When you raised up the mountains did your lower… Read More
Sunday Prayer: in sinfulness and in reconciliation
Be present, Great Shepherd,
Reconciler, and Redeemer,
with the one who has gone astray
and cannot seem to find the way
home … Read More
Saturday Prayer
God, I am packing my heart-lunch with the smiles of the morning – the enthusiastic beagle crotch-licking the window hanging ramshackle until I fix the cords, the outrage of simultaneous acne and wrinkles, the breeze that brings birdsong with a hint of skunk, the raccoon at the bird feeder, an adolescent wild turkey strutting unaware… Read More
Friday Prayer
For the love of You, I confess that I no longer know how to pray. I do not have the energy even to sigh. I couldn’t even decide where to start. I sit. I focus on relaxing my hands in an open position. I try to let my shoulders fall away from my ears. My… Read More
Thursday Prayer
Holy One,I could use a little flame by the side of the road, Off in the corner of my eye, Something to spark, Curiosity, Imagination,Hope… I could use a spark or a sign or a signal. I could also use a detailed set of instructions. A how-to list, with a plan. Something to show, Strategy,Process,… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of Renewal, On this first day of the month, as pumpkin spice hits the shelves and the winds blow cooler air, help us find the hope of this month. Undoubtedly, our world is masked and daily life is met with skepticism. What will this month bring? We ask ourselves with fear in our hearts.… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Here I Am
Here I am: lost in the wilderness, chasing sheep and rabbit holes, out of touch with my own spirit and being, but here I am — wherever “here” is. Here I am: unsettled and uncertain, overwhelmed by grief and setback, desperate for meaning from burning bushes, but here I am — however “here” might be.… Read More
