God, sometimes it is hard to pray Perhaps that’s why those earlier followers asked Jesus to teach them to pray Perhaps that’s why Jesus laid it out: Our Creator God, who is above all things We call on your name God and ask that you bring your full power into this moment, into our very… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Confession
We have listened to the wrong gods, O Holy Life, to the ones that say “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” and the ones that say “Your help is in the rat race.” Hear your people protest: “How long?” Hear your people confess: “No more!” We have said our prayers to the wrong gods,… Read More
Saturday Prayer: If we had wings
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Psalm 84:3 Holy One, We have so many doubts. You made us to fly, but we doubt our wings. You gave us a song, but… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Things are the same, Lord, but oh, so different! You send us to proclaim your Word, though we now navigate a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party of Zoom and Facebook and camera angles and lighting to make it happen. You call us to love our neighbor, though we share that love through masks and sanitizer and… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Troubled
Incline yourself like a dread warrior toward those you love, O Holy One. Count the hairs on the heads of Robert Fuller, Malcolm Harsch, Dominique Alexander, and comfort those terrorized by racism’s awful fruit. Hear the cries of the children. Hear the cries of the elders. Grieve, O Holy Love, the sparrows felled by violence:… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Your Kindom Come
Fire our imagination O Holy Spirit of Wisdom! Help us to see beyond what is, to a vision of your kindom. Inspire us, revive us, that we might let go of trying to fix what is, to edit, as if our structures and institutions are templates for a slightly better future if only we fix… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Eternal God, as our statues fall and our streets get new names, strengthen our resolve so our inner will matches the outer changes. Give us, we pray, the gifts of endurance, of a deep breath, of clarity, and of seeing our lies and living for truth. May we embrace change like a friend, instead… Read More
Sunday Prayer: By the Oaks of Mamre
Stay awhile, O Stranger, for the night has been long and cruel and our souls are not yet wrung dry from weeping. Stay awhile, O Stranger, for the fires are raging on cultic altars built to sacrifice precious fruit to ravenous gods. Stay awhile, O Stranger, for the day has burned our eyes with violence… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Brokenness
Holy One, We are struggling, and the weight of loss and grief is breaking us. The waves of injustice upon injustice, violence upon violence are drowning our hearts. We pour out our questions of “why’s” and “why not’s”. We look for answers within our own understanding and experience… and there is nothing. We have chosen… Read More
Friday Prayer: A Prayer for Reading the News
God of truth, Lead me to wise and honest news sources. May I discern well among the bombardment media. God of justice, Open my ears to the voices of people who are too often silenced, who need to be heard. Let me listen well to those who are different from me. God of joy, Show… Read More
