What we have confined, O Love,you have exploded. What we have defined, O Love,you have confounded. What we have constrained, O Love,you have released. What we have diminished, O Love,you have overflowed. What we have cast in stone, O Love,you have made to dance. What we have discarded, O Love,you have set as foundational. So… Read More
Saturday prayer: Messy
Holy One, Life is messy right now. Nothing is neat and tidy, and all of our traditions and expectations from previous Advent seasons lie in pieces. How we need a reminder that all is well and you are still in the heavens. We hold those we love close in our memories, if not by our… Read More
Thursday Prayer: following the star
We are setting out, O God, following the star (at least we hope we are). We are hoping to find you, Jesus, hoping to have our worlds changed, hoping to have our selves changed. (We need all the change you’re bringing). It is easy to lose sight of the star, for it to be obscured… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Mighty God, we understand Advent…but Christmas? Can we turn from Advent to Christmas, when the time comes? Is there still joy, with millions dead around the world? Do we deserve peace, with fire weaponized again against Black people? How can we hope, with millions hungry? Advent matches our longing for your presence…a big helping this… Read More
Friday prayer: tired of waiting
Good God, I am tired of waiting. I am tired of waiting on the vaccine rollout. I am tired of waiting on my kid to stop spinning in his desk chair and finish his virtual schoolwork. I am tired of waiting on church folk to realize that their pastors do not come with a Teflon… Read More
The Pastoral Is Political: playground politics
In this Advent season of waiting, preparation and anticipation, the world has waited in eager anticipation for a cure, or at least a vaccine for Covid-19. It has taken global efforts and the co-operation of scientists to produce a vaccine. In the last week, people in the UK have received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. This should… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
O God, as I hear Mary sing her song this Advent, I wonder what songs have been silenced in us. Which ones of us have been told we’re not worthy of singing? Shushed for gender, skin color, lack of wealth, or any other excuse? And, what songs have been silenced in me? Where have I… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Peace among the pieces
Holy One, We who have been giving comfort, speaking hope, modeling joy… we are tired. Our hearts ache with unsung songs. Our churches are quiet. The people we love… are safely at home. We are worn, broken, and tired. We do not feel peaceful. We do not see the culmination of Peace around us. Yet,… Read More
Friday prayer: let us wage peace
God who wages peace, we often think of your vision for this world too passively, simply waiting for conflict to end; too much as a lack of something negative, merely wanting our circumstances to be different than they are now. But your peace is active, urging us to join you in working for it. Your… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Hope
Every daywe move the solstice sunone day along our Advent spiraland this weekwe name our hopes. We hope for reform of the welfare system,for an end to cisheteropatriarchy,for the smashing of white supremacyand other, smaller hopes:for a good writing day,for peaceful sleep,for a friend to be comforted,and so we pray. God, our hopes are wildand… Read More
