Please, O my God! give me patience. Where I blame myself – patience. Where I blame others – please, patience. Where I would blame and other – patience. Patience takes the long view, considers the context, offers charity even when undeserved. And, O my heart! Isn’t that when you offer it to us? Martha Spong… Read More
Sunday Prayer
Delightful Breath, merciful Relation, generous Body, We celebrate the gift of the new day and the opportunities of community. With the tall oaks we praise your strength; with the winding rivers we sing the songs of heaven. Behind and before, beneath and betwixt, You are here. We pray over the mourning and the lonely the… Read More
Saturday Prayer – Prayer for parents of young adults
“There they go, God.” I think they are still mine. I want to call after them, “Wait! There are so many things I forgot to warn you about! You know you can always come back, right?” But the words catch in my throat. They can’t hear me, anyway. The future is roaring in their… Read More
Friday Prayer
Holy One, I stand in the clear, dry, air Looking at the coming storm And I worry. Oh, Divine One, how I worry. I see the darkness come and clouds gather. I watch the branches sway And fear rises. Oh Divine One, how it rises. I watch the birds fly ahead of the rain, Lifted… Read More
Thursday Prayer
Spirit Divine, Life and Truth, Guide and Friend, Power and Love, You, Today, Take this ego of mine, My need to get it right. My need to do it best. My need to control how it goes. My need to follow the rules. (And succeed. And win.) My sense of accomplishment Value Worth Love That… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of all seasons, we continuously arrive at times of both hellos and goodbyes. Some periods are full of hellos and building acquaintances. Strangers become friends, and the unfamiliar becomes intimate. And every so often we enter a season of goodbyes. Like a blizzard which chills us, the flurry of farewells freezes our hearts. For… Read More
Monday Prayer
Holy One Precious gifts come from unexpected places People. Chance meetings. Events. Snatched conversations. May we be ever thankful – knowing that in every conversation, every encounter, every snatched moment. You are. Blessing us, with blessings upon blessings. Reaching us, with paths that cross unexpectedly. Touching us – with words and gestures of kindness and… Read More
Sunday Prayer
(from Psalm 29) Holy Splendour, Your voice! Your voice hovers over mighty waters, full of power. Your voice breaks the strongest cedars Your voice flashes forth flames of fire, shaking the wilderness, causing oaks to whirl stripping us bare to the essence of our being. Glory! How is it that we can not hear the… Read More
Saturday Prayer: For Trinity Saturday
Holy, holy, holy God, Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, Let us not commit (too much) heresy tomorrow as we try to explain your inexplicable three-in-oneness: the eternal communion of the Godhead, the perichoresis of the Divine life, the baffling reality that is You, our one God, as Trinity. As we stumble through sermons and liturgy bless our… Read More
Thursday Prayer
Woe is me! I am lost. I’m a mess of a woman. I’m loud and temperamental, impulsive and emotional, I can be so very jealous and angry, selfish and lazy, I watch too much Netflix and hate eating vegetables, and I’m not entirely sure I brushed my teeth this morning. I live in a mess… Read More
