So God, Where I am now they call this springtime. I want sunshine, flowers, robin’s eggs, and even muddy boots shed on the stoop on the way inside for a cup of tea, served with a big spoonful of honey. Spring’s sweetness is what I want. I do not want the bitter blast of cold… Read More
Friday Festival: Revealing the Hidden
Our bloggers are writing about things unseen this week. They explore the hidden nature of other people, themselves and their lives. Also, the thinly veiled beauty of chocolate chip pie. Unconscious contracts are on Mags Blackie’s mind, as she ponders the things she does without thinking deeply about them. They include “The knee jerk response… Read More
Friday Prayer: Fellow Travelers
Oh Holy One, How quickly we forget that you brought us onto this planet as travelers on the same road, hungry ones in need of food, tired ones in need of rest. How quickly we turn on one another and question instead of believe, accuse instead of listen, attack instead of trust. We aim at… Read More
RevGalBookPals: The Path Between Us
Disclosure: I have attended two BEs (Big Events) with Suzanne Stabile and received two free copies of this book, plus the study guide, for review. After four years of study, prayer, pouting, protesting, and assimilation of information, I can tell you that the Enneagram has been the greatest spiritual tool to helping me connect with… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Pursued by Goodness
Goodness and mercy all my days, shall surely follow me… Dear God, I am trying to write my sermon for Good Shepherd Sunday and I keep singing Brother James’ Air and in particular those lines about goodness and mercy. The verb is apparently a really active one. Not so much follow as pursue. So I… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Good Shepherd Edition
My home congregation is Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. For as long as I can remember, their logo has included a silhouette of Jesus as shepherd, holding a long staff. They have a beautiful metal (iron?) sculpture of a shepherd carrying a sheep. Their columbarium, which I have yet to see in person,… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
To my Lord Jesus Christ who came into the world to save those who were lost You who did leave the ninety and nine sheep in order to look for the lost one please look for me in the path of my errors where I hide myself from you and my fellow humans. You, the… Read More
Monday Prayer
“April is the cruelest month,” the poet T. S. Eliot writes, and we are living that reality in a world caught between the tensions and apparent contradictions that comprise this life. The shifting sands of need among the beloved of God require nimble feet for those who seek and serve. Balance, you say? We do… Read More
Friday Prayer: sowing our prayers
Oh Lord, The planning and planting, The yearning and dreaming, The unrealized hopes of last year All haunt us. We doubt ourselves, We wonder if we heard your voice, We name our failures, We stare down our accusers. But in this season Of setting buds and growing fruit, Of watering and fertilizing, Of tending and… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party
Greetings, Preaching Friends! It’s that time again: the eleventh hour. These seem to come regularly, approximately once a week or so, yes? Revised Common Lectionary preachers have yet another resurrection appearance, as well as some other options, which are discussed in Tuesday’s RCL post. Narrative Lectionary preachers are pondering Saul/Paul’s conversion story from Acts. What… Read More
