God, our Mother and Father Christ, our Friend and Brother Holy Spirit, Comfort and Challenger Thank you for the many beauties of this day For the wonder of creation and the turning of the seasons For bodies that breathe and move For the opportunity you place before us To gather in community. So often we… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Giving Thanks
For the sunshine, the iris, the thousand shades of green, I give you deep thanks, O God. Let me live in gratitude for the abundance of Your creation: abundant beauty; abundant provision; abundant life. Let me rest, this day, in appreciation for what is solid beneath my feet; for the oxygen in the air I… Read More
Wits’-Ends-Day: Gratitude List
How is it with your souls, my friends? Since this is supposed to be a humor column, I won’t list all of the recent news stories that have troubled my spirit or explain the disruptions in my personal life that caused me to forget to post a prayer on this very web site last Saturday.… Read More
Saturday Prayer – Strawberry
Thank you God for this strawberry, the last fresh one of the season, almost too ripe to pick and eat. Thank you God for this strawberry, not too ripe after all, plucked carefully to avoid crushing, eaten still kneeling. Thank you God for this strawberry, which is not a metaphor for anything but is just itself… Read More
