God who calls us to rest, to release Remind us what is ours and what is not Allow us to embrace the many lessons While acknowledging that for all things there is a season You call us to love one another as you have loved us This love does not cater but liberates This love… Read More
Friday Prayer
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
Friday Prayer
Dear God, For the sake of our children, all children May all love be acceptable and a source of joy and pride for more than one month a year May freedom be more than a one-day holiday for some, while many remain colonized, enslaved, hidden May the Church reclaim our role to accompany one another,… Read More
Monday Prayer: a Lament, for Many Reasons
A Lament, for Many Reasons Bittersweet prayers, Lord! Thinking of my dad, gone for 42 years. Thinking of cancer, and how it robs so many Of such love, caring, and companionship. Bittersweet prayers, dear Jesus! Thinking of dying patients and loving families, Thinking of hospice and good-byes and grief. Bittersweet prayers, sweet Spirit! Thinking of… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Sending Love
Hey God, I hope you had a chance to whisper in my sister’s ear How beloved she is, as she is tired of only reading books to her child over and over, and over and over again. and I hope you wrapped your arms around my brother, whose birthday it is. And that you reassured… Read More
Monday Prayer: May 19, 2022.
This prayer is for the hurting kids, Loving God. The ones who never got the care they needed; the ones who cower under blankets, because the broken love of this world feels like utter chaos. These are the kids who never got the stability, attachment, and consistency to gain the courage it takes to love.… Read More
Sunday Prayer, Seeing Christ May 15, 2022
In the church member who sits alone in the back pew crying silently, May I see the face of Christ. In the stranger who looks lost in my closed and gated community, May I see the face of Christ. In the child who knocks at my door asking me to play when I assume I… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
For small wins in a time of deep struggle For babies born in a world addicted to death For warm spirits in a cold society For elder wisdom amidst the chaos For ancestral guides leading us to liberation For love undeserving yet steadfast We say thank you, God Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! *********… Read More