O Precious One, Monday morning comes again… Is this my Sabbath? Is this your day with me? When work presses in, disturbing Holy rest… help me create spaces for you When life presses in, overwhelming with busyness and tasks, and family, and lists, and emails, and people, and needs of others,and needs of me…… Read More
Friday Prayer: Rest
Holy One, We have sung and chanted and prayed and exulted. We have alleluia’d and amen’ed. We have moved the half-dead flowers and re-set our churches for Eastertide. We have studied and prepared our next sermon series. We have scheduled all the “after-Easter” tasks. We are tired. Lord, After you taught and preached and healed… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Weary
“I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish” Jeremiah 31: 25 For the weary, we pray: For those who have waited, and hoped and watched but for whom the better day has not yet dawned… Satisfy the weary, replenish the faint For those whose bodies are worn by working and… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
A Pastor’s Prayer on the Edge of Lent Slow me down, O God. I am in a rush, burdened with deadlines and deaths, yearning for downtime and delight. Slow me down long enough to see you right now. Not tomorrow, not in my dreams, not on that mountaintop looming large, but right now in my… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Rest
Rest that part of us which is tired.
Awaken that part of us which is asleep. Read More
