I said to my soul, Soul, we are here. We are here with the aches of the past. We are here with the promise of the future. The past has promise too. That someday there will be meaning and depth and story that we do not yet see. That promise fulfilled does not mean that… Read More
Thursday Prayer: New Year’s Eve
This is a prayer for anyone who is not readyfor the New Year yet.Who is not readyto move on yet.Who doesn’t have energy for “New Year New You”. Who is still in the grief of it all,who isn’t ready to be gratefulfor it right now,or to turn all hard times into “growth”. This is a prayerfor anyone… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
As the year ends, God, what shall we keep from this year? What blessings have we wrestled out of its kick to the stomach, its unrelenting grief and hollowing loneliness? And what, O God, shall we take up in the new year, as it brings its gift of newness to our weariness? May we hold… Read More
RCL: Baptism Renewed
It is time for baptism of Jesus, a well-worn text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This year its Matthew 3:143-17. Many leaders take this opportunity to hold a renewal of baptism. The timing is fitting in the secular calendar, New Year, New Start, Baptism Renewal. After the re-realization of who Christ is and that Jesus… Read More
Friday Festival: Turning the Corner into a New Year
It’s not just one year ending and another beginning. This year there is the added impact of a new decade. When we write the date, this year we need to retrain our muscle memory to write two different digits instead of just one. The new year was on the minds of a number of our… Read More
Friday Festival: What We Embrace
Is it time to join a gym? Follow up on a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking? Make friends with Marie Kondo? Our bloggers are writing about the gifts and challenges of the new year. Thinking about the star words that are often given at Epiphany, as a personal guiding star for the year ahead,… Read More
Saturday Prayer: New Year, Rough Start
Holy God, Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End, Creator of Time and Eternity: It’s the first Saturday of the new year And things aren’t going according to plan. OK, that’s not exactly true. Things aren’t going according to the plan I would have made, If I had taken the time to make a… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of All Grace, All Hope, All Love- As we enter this sparkling new year, may we shed the coats of regret left upon our souls from last year. May the lessons remain in our minds while the shame is left in the past. As a crisp, fresh year sits in front of us, we… Read More
Wits’ Ends Day: New Year’s Resolutions (for other people)
I was too busy throwing up my peppermint fudge brownie sundae (and whatever else I had eaten ever in my life) to make new year’s resolutions last week. But that’s OK. I’d be breaking them by now anyway. A couple of years ago I made some resolutions for failure in the new year—which worked out… Read More
Friday Festival ~ Happy New Year Edition!
The New Year is not exactly creeping in on little cat feet. Celebrations, vacations, new church officers and endeavors, magi, baptism, frigid weather and wild snowstorms bring much of the northern hemisphere to a halt. There must be something to write about, yes? Rachel Hackenberg starts us off with a New Year’s Eve poem/prayer and… Read More
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