Lift up our hearts, Lord. Lift up our eyes to see your work around us. As day falls to night, help us close the chapters of our days and rest in you. Lift up our hearts, Lord. Lift up our hearts to see the best in those around us, to behold them as creatures of… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Sweet Spirit of Hopefulness, Too many stories of heartache fill our newsfeeds. Too many comments of negativity fill our airwaves and irritate our eardrums. Between the public world and our private lives, sorrow and anxieties rage. Where is your tranquility, Spirit of God? As the currents of life overtake us, may your winds encircle us… Read More
Monday Prayer
Monday Prayer: a prayer for dear seniors Dear Lord, thank You for dear seniors. Thank You for years of wisdom and time well spent. Thank You for frolic, foolishness and time well wasted. Help me to listen well when they reminisce, again. Help me have compassion when they cannot remember. Lead me to special conversations,… Read More
Sunday Prayer
What if we hope against hope in the God of hope? Read More
Saturday Prayer
Holy One, You created a beautiful world for us. We make it a rough place to grow. We are inhospitable to one another. We seem to agree on very little. We fight over definitions and Calling. We hold up impossible standards in preaching and worship. FORGIVE US. We ignore the weeds of sin that creep… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Divine Breath of Wellness, As our bodies ache of illnesses or our hurt from injuries, we seek your comforting presence. As our minds race from anxiety or tire from depression, we seek your care. Oh how we wish these bodies and minds of ours would be superhuman! And yet, in our vulnerability, we reach out… Read More
Monday Prayer
Wild, free Spirit, what did you do the day after Pentecost? Did you curl up and rest? Did the wind still? Or did you take it easy, sending small breaths of peace out into the world? Or, were you blowing somewhere else, unnoticed? Did someone miss their own Pentecost? On this day, Mothering Spirit, we… Read More
Saturday Prayer
Holy One, In a moment of spent blossoms and memories of yesterday, remind us that You are the God of all time. All of our pasts, all of our futures, all of our present lives are in Your hands. Where we have doubts, hold anger against our neighbors, and act in our own self-interests, convict… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God who spins the planet, turning one month into the next, we come to you in awe, and hope, and slight worry, wondering what this month, and this day, and this hour will hold. As this new month begins, we pray for the war-weary and those in danger, for the grieving and those in pain,… Read More
Saturday Prayer, May 28, 2022
(Please forgive the gritty detail.) I saw this very first bud with color on the crown of a tall rhododendron bush because I was on an exercise cycle on the second floor by the window, not reading, listening, or watching anything, simply gazing. God, help me find the right perspectiveto recognize something bloomingwhen any other… Read More
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