On this day, dear God, As we seek rest As we seek peace As we seek love As we seek justice As we seek joy As we seek wholeness As we seek liberation … May we be rest for the weary and those constantly profiled May we be peace in moments of anxiety and fear… Read More
Saturday Prayer
(May 15th is National Armadillo Day, I don’t know anything about armadillos, but May 23 is World Turtle Day and Pentecost, and I am thinking ahead to both. In the cemetery I met this my relation, slowly-enough paced to let me draw her with watercolor pencil. Where will she be in a week? Where will… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Creator God, I hear the birds outside my window and they remind me that the Word promised that you love me just as you love them. Thank you, God! I pray that today, I may be attuned to your creative messages of power, love, and justice in order to drown out the sounds of hate,… Read More
Monday Prayer
What would we do without you, sun and earth and air and water? Praise you, Creator, who set them into life and introduced them to each other! For the air has warmed enough for the dog and I to stand silent and safe in the road where snow and ice melted down to pavement, a… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Creation reminds us we are a part of something magnificent and awesome In this there is great responsibility and accountability To you, Creator To your people All your people All of creation May we take the time to listen to what creation is telling us today, God May we be present to her groans May… Read More
RCL: Power vs. Perfection
In Mark 1:4-11 Mark gives the succinct version of John the Baptist. The power of this narrative is so strong that every line could be read and pondered. “John the Baptizer appeared.” Why did he appear? How did he know when to do so? Was he told by his mother Elizabeth, relative of Mary? Did… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Marking the Seasons
Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.” Genesis 1:14 NLT Creator God, Maker of all that is beautiful, wondrous and true… Thank you for the signs of the seasons, of new buds and flowers, of… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Creator, we feel it The atmosphere shifting The atmosphere is shifting Words of hate spilling out of mouths of leaders, filling the ears of the desolate, loud and brazen over airways, from pulpits, and in the streets The disease of white supremacy metastasizing and showing up ever more aggressive, threatening and terminal The atmosphere is… Read More
Narrative Lectionary: Muddy Revelations (Genesis 2:4b-7, 15-17, 3:1-8)
When the woman opened her closet door, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Definitely not what I saw on the full shelves. Serving as a hospice chaplain, I was always interested in what people did to prepare for the death they knew was coming. Family visits, long-delayed trips, going to the beach and sitting outside… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God, sometimes it is hard to pray Perhaps that’s why those earlier followers asked Jesus to teach them to pray Perhaps that’s why Jesus laid it out: Our Creator God, who is above all things We call on your name God and ask that you bring your full power into this moment, into our very… Read More
