God, I remember that blue-skied Tuesday morning eighteen years ago when plumes of smoke stole the familiar skyline. The landscape was forever changed in Manhattan, and the fabric of our souls forever altered. The hole created in the hearts at the Pentagon has never closed. The fields amid Pennsylvania mountaintops permanently hold deep craters of… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Beautiful Feet
How beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of the messenger who brings good news. How beautiful upon the plains; How beautiful upon the sidewalks and the roads, the hallways and the aisles, are the feet of your messengers, God, who bring good news. The bad news comes at us from all sides– from the… Read More
Saturday Prayer: This is the Day
This is the day, God, that you have made. This day when I am up too early, when my to-do list is too long, when I’m still dealing with fallout from the day you made yesterday. This is the day, God, that you have made. This day with the glowing sunrise, with time to spend… Read More
Friday Prayer: First Glimpse
Thank you, God, For my first glimpse of this world today was quiet, and ethereal, and your peace flowed over me like the blanket over my body… I am covered in your mercy, I am nestled in your grace. Thank you, God, For the rhythm of our days can drown out your voice, like all… Read More
Thursday Prayer: for Father’s Day
In New Zealand and Australia, Father’s Day is the first Sunday of September. You can find another Father’s Day prayer for all kinds of fathers here. We pray for hearts and minds as Father’s Day approaches: For those whose hearts and minds will find joy and celebration this weekend we pray. Hear us, O God. … Read More
Sunday Prayer: Solomon’s Prayer
O God, our Creator and our Sovereign, there is no God like you — not in heaven and certainly not on earth — no other god who keeps promises and is faithful in love. Our lives are before you, day by day, and our hearts are full of wonder as they strive to know you… Read More
Thursday prayer: A prayer for take off
Dear God, If, for a moment, I could hear all the talking, all the thinking, all the longing, all the hoping, all the cursing, all the shopping lists and reminder chimes even of these few houses below me let along of all the houses in all the cities and towns and villages and the tents… Read More
Sunday Prayer
Be pleased to love us, O God our God, as the mother hen loves her chicks, as the bread loves to nourish the hungry. Be pleased to love us, O God our God, for love is your essence and character, hospitality and creativity are your way of being. Be pleased to love us, O God… Read More
Thursday Prayer: a blessing for a clergywoman
May God bless you this day: May God’s presence undergird your days: sustaining you in hope, indwelling you in peace, encouraging you in faith. May you find freedom and room to breathe when the space seems narrow; may you find boldness and clarity when you are called to speak truth to power; may you find… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Waiting
For those who die in the raging war of injustice, O merciful God, hear our cries & our prayers. For those who kneel in protest and in despair, O merciful God, hear our cries & our prayers. For those who dream and those who are haunted, O merciful God, hear our cries & our prayers.… Read More
