I am delighted to yield this space today to the Rev. Casey Wait, pastor, storyteller, and painter. She currently serves as pastor of John Calvin Presbyterian Church in Annandale, Virginia. You can reach Casey on Twitter @caseyfitzgerald or by email revcasey@johncalvinpres.org. You can see her paintings by visiting http://www.caseypaints.com or listen to her tell stories… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Spirit of Warmth, As chills reign in the hearts of many,we reach for our spiritual blankets to remove the frigidness surrounding us. Oh how so many words and images and actionshave built a wall of ice between us and our neighbors! Yet there is no ice that you, God, can’t melt.For you are our Great… Read More
Thursday Prayer
Gracious God,We repent. The ways we’ve turned from your love. The ways we’ve rejected your community. The ways we’ve abandoned your justice. Holy Love,We repent. The hate in our hearts. The evil in our policies. The greed in our leadership. The lies on our lips. Spirit Divine,We repent. Our tendencies toward apathy. The distractions we… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of light, On the days of shadows and clouds, our souls feel the strain of gray. Will sunlight pierce through the thickness of dread? Will light reach our foreheads, our hands, our spirits? Whether winter clouds or summer storms, erase clouds from the skies. Remove the clouds hovering above our minds and encapsulating our… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
As the year ends, God, what shall we keep from this year? What blessings have we wrestled out of its kick to the stomach, its unrelenting grief and hollowing loneliness? And what, O God, shall we take up in the new year, as it brings its gift of newness to our weariness? May we hold… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Holy God, there are gifts we long for this Christmas. We praise you for the gifts that have sustained us this year: deep hope…holy energy…perseverance…righteous anger…the ability to see injustice around us, and within us. We ask you for particular gifts this season: rest for health care workers…a full table for the hungry…health for those… 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
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
Tuesday Prayer
Source of All Greatness- As we ponder all things for which we are thankful, I can’t help but hear the little grouch in my soul… the Grinch-like energy that wants to drag me away from the positive moments of 2020. Allow me to have my grumpy moments, God. This has been a difficult year filled… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Divine Mirror- Oh, how I see the world the way I want to see it! Yet I see the world through the lens of a pandemic-exhausted, physically tired person! The lens I look through has a tint of blue, and the distortion is growing by the day. I’m tired, God. I’m tired of seeing the… Read More
