Let the ends of the earth remember and worship; tell tomorrow, and yesterday, and today to bow. Read More
Saturday Prayer: Mountains out of Molehills
Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland Holy One, I stare at the rising trail, and I sigh. I am facing my fears… counting the steps… calculating if I’m ready to go. The goal is so far away. You invite. You encourage. You Call… this is your work… this is your place… this is your task… these are my… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
This Lent, O God, our thoughts are muddled. We wander from grief to rage to distraction to hope, our thoughts moving as fast as our fingers move from app to app. Dare we hope that a brighter future is coming? Dare we believe that we will be able to live through our layers of grief? … Read More
Thursday Prayer: to see and to seek
Dear God, Your friend Julian* says that you desire to be seen, to be sought, to be expected, to be trusted. I am so grateful that the gifts you give are to the whole people of God. That I, on my own, don’t have to muster all the seeing, seeking, expecting and trusting. That we… Read More
Sunday Prayer: I Cannot Fly
I cannot fly, O God of the soaring eagle; but today I can wake and I can rise. Read More
Saturday Prayer: Priorities
Holy One, I made choices today. – how late I slept, what I ate, where I traveled. What tasks and chores I planned. (Or didn’t.) I realized as I made my choices that most of them were selfish, if not self-serving. I took notice of my family’s needs, not the world’s aches and pains. Forgive… Read More
The Monday Prayer
In the Mystery of all our beginnings And all our endings, I am hanging out with You, in the middle. Here I am less sure of where it all belongs In the story of me—in the story of all. Here I am worn down from what has been And what I think I’m trying to… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Spirit of Warmth, As chills reign in the hearts of many,we reach for our spiritual blankets to remove the frigidness surrounding us. Oh how so many words and images and actionshave built a wall of ice between us and our neighbors! Yet there is no ice that you, God, can’t melt.For you are our Great… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God on this day of Epiphany, we invoke the spirit of our ancestors, Los Tres Reyes Magos, the wise men, the magi, the scholars, the astrologers Called by many names Remembered for many reasons ~ ashé Today God, as we face election battles, the rise of white supremacist groups, poverty, and hunger at an all-time… 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
