Are you looking for some liturgical language that helps express where we are in these days? Here are some offerings from around the RevGals community, for you to use or adapt. Please give credit in video descriptions or manuscripts, but no verbal attribution is necessary. TRANSFIGURATION SUNDAY Prayer: Glory, by Christine Jerrett, posted on Christine… Read More
Worship Words-January 17, 2021
What a time to be planning worship! May God grant you words and actions to both express/name what is and to call/proclaim what God wills to be. Feel free to use/read/adapt with credit to the listed author and revgalblogpals.org 1A.Opening Prayer by Barb Hedges-Goettl (GATE-L) O God, in this time of change and challenge, we… Read More
Friday Prayer
You already know, Love,How I sometimes kick prayer down the listUntil I have more time Or energyOr mental capacityOr something. In the moments before sleep, I mutter thatYou already know everything, so amen and amen. And sometimes I stare off into spaceWith the intention of focusBut my mind blanks out and when I shake myself… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Whining for crumbs
written to accompany a sermon on Isaiah 55:1-5 God of Overflowing Love, We confess that we doubt that all that you offer us as your children will be “enough.” You offer us an abundant feast when we whine for crumbs. You invite us in with open arms, and we stay close-hearted. You show us a… Read More
Friday Prayer
Intercessor for my soul, I’ve had it with serenity with the things I cannot change.Screw that. (You know the words I really want to use.) I will not serenely accept that some people don’t want to do better,That the harm of history is indelible on the future, That I must interpret the actions of others… Read More
Worship Words for Sunday, June 21: When the Words are Wrong
Looking for liturgical language that suits this moment in our world — a world of pandemic, uprising against individual and systemic racism, virtual gathering, and so much more? Here we offer some…feel free to use as is, to adapt, or to use for inspiration for your own. If you use these in written materials, please… Read More
Friday Prayer
God who already knows my prayers- I am out of words that don’t sound trite. I believe that you are already showing mercy. Let my prayer, instead, be the work of my hands, my feet, my mouth, my earsTo daily, hourly, minute by minuteDismantle the systems of racism and racial oppression in my countryAnd across… Read More
Friday Prayer
I will enter your house with burnt offerings and will pay you my vows— those that I promised with my lips and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble. – Psalm 66:13-14 To the Heavenly Accounting Department: I am checking in on the status of my account. I am have lost track of my number of… Read More
Saturday Prayer – City Prayer
The city is terrible, of course. Too much concrete and not enough trees. The houseless suffer and the wealthy prosper. Nazis, who don’t even bother to be neo anymore, walk the streets unbothered. And don’t even get me started on the traffic, God. And yet, sometimes, when the sun is setting, and her lines are… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Expressive God- You must make faces at us as we wrestle with this life. Do you give us a side eye glare as we make biased comments? Do you shake your head when we walk away from a call? Do you facepalm us as you facepalmed the disciples when they ran away from Jesus and… Read More
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