Creation understands interdependence Embraces it, models it Reveals to us that in our connection we have our very being Creation is calling us back to life To accountability To communion To joy To healing To freedom I pray we humans get it … The Creator is conspiring on our behalf Revealing a living hope Filling… Read More
Friday Prayer
It is pretty obvious we know how to create beauty You have gifted us with imagination, Holy Creator Its living evidence is all around us We can abide with creation, as part of creation You believe it, God and declared us all good Do we? Cuz we refuse to put down our guns or pass… Read More
Friday Prayer
bent but not broken wounded yet still breathing bravely refusing to silently disappear this is how I have been of late, God i am grateful. my gratitude does not wipe away my rage but does allow me to move, and, act, and show-up, in ways where rage doesn’t take over… it just glides off me… Read More
Saturday Prayer: The hills cry out
The hills cry out, O God. They call to us to watch and see, To look for the signs of change, To watch for the hawk circling for prey. The hills cry out, O God. They invite us to wait, to wonder, To dare to climb, To follow a path blazed for us. The hills… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Find beauty
Holy One, We long to find beauty. We have found a world full of ugly, A heart full of pain. Help us, Divine Wisdom. Help us look for beauty in the forgotten places, In quiet spaces, In expectant faces. And right under our feet. Shepherd, Guide us so that we do not miss your bold… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
In a world where beauty standards often render so many of us, your beloved, as ugly, Where racism, patriarchy, ableism, xenophobia, and homophobia would cause us to believe we don’t belong, And success means upward mobility and towering over the more vulnerable, Your creation reminds us that it is more than “okay” to be queer,… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
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
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