Thank you for a new day Thank you for time to pray Thank you for the sun that chases the blues away Thank you for seedlings breaking through the soil and the blossoms adding colors to the trees Thank you for the sound of the birds outside my window (not so much the poop on my car)… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Mothering God
Mothering God, For your creative, creating energy, We give you thanks. For groaning in labor pains, We give you thanks. For the tears you shed, We give you thanks. For the shelter of your wings, We give you thanks. For stirring our nests and carrying us aloft, We give you thanks. For feeding us and… Read More
Monday Prayer
O Precious One, Monday morning comes again… Is this my Sabbath? Is this your day with me? When work presses in, disturbing Holy rest… help me create spaces for you When life presses in, overwhelming with busyness and tasks, and family, and lists, and emails, and people, and needs of others,and needs of me…… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Trading in my resentment
God, I want to trade in my feelings of resentment– That I’m up early on a Saturday That I have a meeting to go to soon And then another meeting after that And a sermon to finish somehow in the midst of it all While my husband and daughter are off to the races (literally,… Read More
Sunday Prayer
You who are our strength, you who are our salvation: We have known your presence and we have doubted it. We have known pain and we have known delight. We have known peace and we have known fear. Through it all, we confess: your steadfast love endures forever. You who are our sanctuary, you who… Read More
Easter Sunday Prayer
Let us do what is right, with prayer and praise: We rejoice in your renewal, O Creator — alleluia, amen — and we celebrate the labor to which we are called. We rejoice that we are not surrendered to death — alleluia, amen — and we celebrate your name on this day. We preach the women’s… Read More
Friday Prayer
O Holy One, as Creation holds its breath, we wait we ponder we search our souls. we doubt we step back in fear we fail you. grant us peace give us hope clear our minds as we listen for that first whisper from the tomb, as we watch for that first glimmer of resurrection light.… Read More
Maundy Thursday Prayer: Remember
“Do this to remember me…” However we do this with a loaf, wafers, cubes of bread… However we do the doing in vestments our Sunday best barefoot or high-heeled Dear God, help us to remember not the to-do list or the thing we forgot to write on the to-do list or who is doing what… Read More
Palm Sunday Prayer
When we have shouted ourselves hoarse and returned home from the parade, forgive our wavering commitment to love. When we have finished our hymns and departed from the comforts of worship, forgive our fickle faithfulness. When we have passed the plate of bread and swept up all the last crumbs, forgive our refusal to extend… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Festival of Lists
A friend calls this liturgical season the Festival of Lists. In this season of all the lists all the liturgies all the last-minute glitches we ask, O God, for your blessing: A blessing of a photocopier that keeps copying. A blessing of volunteers who bear with one another and with their pastors with generosity and… Read More
