Holy One, I give you thanks for the water turned to wine, For the miracle that allows the party to continue, For Jesus’ first sign Which is not a disease healed, not a prejudice corrected, not an authority challenged –he will get there—You will get there— But first it is the wine First it is… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God of all spaces, all boundaries, all borders: We look upon the lands that are yours. Many of our ancestors inappropriately deemed the territories theirs, forgetting that you built this world yourself and purposefully neglecting that others lived on the land. They’ve captured creation, hoarded it for their own self-interest, and excluded or oppressed many… 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
Sunday Prayer: Growing Up
Holy and Beloved, our Wisdom and our Peace, we add our praise to the song of heaven and earth. You are good and glorious! Holy and Beloved, our Wisdom and our Peace, we seek after you in word and deed, in breath and fellowship. You are both siren and satisfaction! Holy and Beloved, our Wisdom… Read More
Wednesday Prayer: you have been once again born
dear 8 pound 6 ounce little baby Jesus: the floors are littered with tinsel and tissue the tree is dry as a bone the wassail has wassailed (whatever that means) and you have been once again born the services are finished the staff has the plague there’s funerals to plan and we’re behind on lent… Read More
Advent 4: Sunday Prayer
O Present and Still Coming Wisdom, contrary to the lessons of this world: From the littlest ones teach us love, and from the meekest show us majesty. In the ire of self-righteousness reveal human foolishness, and in the heartbeat of wealth lay plain hopelessness. To the most outcast announce the greatest joy, and for the… Read More
Friday Prayer: Walking
Holy One, These last few days of Advent could be frantic, a furious sprint to Christmas Eve: the lists, the rehearsals, the sermons, the last-minute shopping, the wrapping of presents, and mailing cards. We push. We fret. We lose the wonder and joy of the season. So in the midst of it all, may we… Read More
Thursday Prayer: for dropped balls and endless to-do lists
As jobs slide off the to-do list and are anxiously remembered: grace As balls are dropped and others are lost in the stretch to pick them up: grace As holiday cards sit, stampless on the dining room table: grace With this breath, in this moment: grace May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (that… Read More
Advent 3: Sunday Prayer
Sing aloud, o daughters! Shout with joy, o children! The peril against you is gone. Yet again and again, O God, we have picked it back up: the peril of fear, the peril of greed, the peril of jealousy, the peril of nationalism, the peril of self-abasement. Again and again we pray, O God: show… Read More
