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
Tuesday Prayer
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
Saturday Prayer – July 9th, 2022
During these summer months, Holy One, may we take time to enjoy things Things like visitors whom we have not seen since pre-COVID Things like blue skies and green grass and birdsong and gentle summer rain Things like sharing meals together in restaurants on patios at beaches Things like Sunday worship and evening prayer and… 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
Wednesday Prayer: July 6, 2022
Reveal yourself to us, Holy Spirit. Bring us pause, invite us to ponder, draw us in. For we know that we do not see, We do not hear, we cannot understand The beauty of God’s reign And design for our lives Except when it is revealed through the Spirit. So if we are to imagine… Read More
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