Eternal Love- We appeal to you on behalf of persons, places, and situations that have not made the headlines. We ask for your mercy to pour out continuously for good in these circumstances. We ask that your presence be felt and known in clear and tangible ways. This is more than a plea for the… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Creator of the earth, and of all who live upon it, we feel the oppressive heat and the drought, see the fires and taste the smoke, watch in horror as buildings collapse and roads wobble, and we wonder how to fix it. We have been careless with your gift of creation, and selfish in our… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Sage God, things once commonplace, then forbidden, are now parts of our days again. We thank you for the tiny gifts of walking without a mask, seeing an old friend, having a guest come over – inside. We thank you for unlimited toilet paper, a smile that’s more than the crinkles of the eyes behind… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Wise God, we give you thanks for the people who help us re-catch our faith when it grows thin, frail, and empty. For the church leader who is constant in prayer that she stirs our prayers again, for the long-ago teacher whose words stay with us, for the grandmothers and aunties whose love calls us… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God, it seems so clear that you must love diversity. You give us a thousand kinds of cacti, fish of all sizes and shapes, bugs of every fantastical design… why would we ever think it should be different with people? Why did we ever think we shouldn’t take pride in who we are? Not the… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Creator God, as our lives open up, as we step out gingerly of the house, as we gather with our beloved people again, or do our work in offices again, the world feels like a new creation, and part of me isn’t ready. Everything feels so loud, and so busy, and so full, and I… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Generous God, as life expands, as we set aside the routines of the past year, and learn new ones, we give thanks for all the places of new opening… around us, and within us. May we take in your expansive Spirit, feeling joy in our individual places of opening up and breathing our thanks, maybe… Read More
Monday Prayer: Through the Valleys
Another Monday has come, O Lord, and we are unprepared for another week. We’re still feeling the echoes of yesterday’s worship words and feeling the exhaustion of navigating Zoom, or prerecording, or negotiating in person in these lingering days of pandemic. The sighs are deep, our bodies are tired. And, yet, you call us into… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Is it right, O God, to be grateful for the bare minimum, for justice done once, when it has been abandoned so many other times? Can we give thanks for one day of something like justice, when there have been so many other empty days? We call out to you the name of George Floyd,… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
You are our shepherd, O God, and we call out for your tending, we long for your protection, seeking safety from the dangers that surround us. The wolves of racism, injustice, and economic insecurity, of stress, illness and pain are circling us, and within us. We shall not want…someday, yet today there is still so… Read More
