Soothing Spirit, my heart and head are off today. The unsettling vibration in my soul overwhelms me today. Something is off- – Today is one year. One year after his death. The makeup of my soul was forever changed that day. And when the winds of September swirl around me, I feel the change of… Read More
Friday Festival: Reforming Our Lives
There’s a spirit of renewal in the air for our bloggers. Some of it is chosen, and other parts are forced. Some is welcome, other things much less so. Near the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, our writers are finding all kinds of other reformations in their own lives. Rebecca at Desert Sojourn is… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God, today I try to return to my “normal”: to my work, friends, routines that help me take steps forward in my life. But God, my body, mind, and soul would rather stay in the well of grief in which I’ve been abiding for the past two weeks. The aches and nausea ground me to… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God, I’m sitting in a deep well a grief. I hear the noise and movement from life outside of the painful bubble in which I currently abide. I wish that I could be with those carrying on the everyday-ness of life. But right now, God, it’s you and me in this space of mourning. Far… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of breathing in and out, of the beating hearts and brain waves, we know that our finite bodies cannot last forever. But when the aches set in or our loved ones are abiding in their final days, it still seems too soon. When the decline starts or the end nears, give us strength in… Read More
Friday Prayer: In Grief
Wisdom of the Ages- You reveal the Divine Self as similar to one who lifts an infant to the cheek. (Hosea 11:4) Through the Spirit, I lift to You those whose infants are ill and struggling. I ask you see those whose adult children are dying. Show mercy to those whose houses are suddenly silent… Read More
RevGalBookPals: The Cure for Sorrow
There are some books that you just need. Not because you are a pastor or a particularly dedicated lay person or because you preach or are waiting for a call or are even a Christian, but you need this book because you are human. You need this book because it will give you words for… Read More
Holy Saturday Prayer – Grieving
MT 27:59-60 So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite… Read More
Friday Prayer: We Remember
O God, We remember where we were when we heard the news. We remember the first time we saw the pictures. We remember the sounds of crashing steel, screaming, keening grief. We remember the shock. We remember the falling man, the rescued friends, the close calls. We remember the dead- in body and in spirit.… Read More
