Word of life, there are so many words. A word of prayer, a word to pronounce, a word in your ear, minister. Words contained in scripture, words to prepare, words to bless. Written word, spoken word. I am all out of words. Word become flesh, may I sit awhile in silence with you? – –… Read More
Monday Prayer
Before our Zoom screens, we sat and wept when we remembered the Before Times.There on our ring lights, we hung our scripts,And there our parishioners asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs unmasked; they said, “This isn’t real and you are causing suffering for no reason!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a pandemic of illness, of… Read More
Monday Prayer – Labor
Laboring God – we thank you for September clouds, autumnal light, cooler days, the great resounding chorus of your creation. Help us to hear your call – to labor with you in your eternal work, work that is grounded in love for your creatures. Send us and call us to all who need aid and… Read More
Monday Prayer – Reconcile
Reconciling God, thank you for bringing form to our chaos and for naming us Good. Thank you for the richness of your seasons, for summertime in my neighborhood, for dragon flies and the sound of boats on the lake; the specific quality of the light of these longer days. Reconcile our hearts to your love,… Read More
Monday Prayer
Thank you for the gift of green and growing things. Thank you for the pastel painted sky as I drove to outdoor worship yesterday, for a throat scratchy from singing and a mind that remembers Messiah choruses to sing them by heart. Thank you for showing up when I can’t find you, for making me… Read More
Monday Prayer
God, I know you’re awfully busy, so I’m not sure if you noticed how a group of us gathered at a farm. How we put on our vestments and beat the bounds and chanted a litany. How we remembered the people the land had been taken from and our complicity in that. I’m writing to… Read More
Monday Prayer
Your feathered choir is in fine fettle this morning, God. They line the trees in the half light of dawn, clear their delicate throats, and sing in their strange language. Guide us as we wake, brew the coffee, move about our day and into another week. Help us to be kind. Help us to be… Read More
Monday Prayer
Thank you gracious Creator for your gifts. Thank you for the minds behind pandemic vaccines. Thank you for music. Thank you for the way the birds sing, heralding the dawn. Thank you for the confusing liturgy of Palm Sunday, for the opportunity to walk once more the road to the cross, to that morning garden… 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
Monday Prayer – Entering the Mystery
We come to you in prayer one day into the mystery. Help us to scrape away the corrosive sin in our lives, help us to put aside all that is not you, and to reconcile the whole world to your care. Let us remember how that begins where we are, with ourselves and our communities.… Read More
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