For every feathered thing that sings we give you praise, For every green and living thing we are thankful. Hear us Lord as we cry out to you: Supplication and praise, Sorrow and thanksgiving, Song and lament. Hear us Lord, for your mercy is great, and your abundance unrivaled. Help us to believe in both.… Read More
Wednesday Prayer: from a chaplain
Oh, God! I know You can come alongside of all who have deep emotion, bearing us up in Your everlasting arms. You will be with us through the deep waters, through all the tumult of our lives, whatever may happen and wherever that may lead us. Thank You for Your gracious promises that cannot fail. Read More
Wednesday Prayer
We know You are the almighty God, our Lord and Savior. We lift You up and praise Your name, because You are healing, merciful, forgiving, mighty, and loving. Read More
Friday Prayer
Holy Parent and Source of all Life-Giving Revelation- I know that there are scales on my place of perception. For we all “see” and “hear” and “understand” differently. And, thus, in the rooted location where I receive informationand respond in accordance with your Love,There are scales. Where I am unable to perceive my own privilege,Let… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Generous God, for your small and mysterious gifts, thank you. As the big box of palms arrived, I start to feel a glimmer of Easter hope. Thinking about Sunday, picturing the kids ringing the chimes and waving the palms, I start to see a way out of Lent, and all that feels like an eternal… Read More
Monday Prayer
By the time I finish this prayer, O God, the situation may have changed and the specifics herein irrelevant, though the sentiment will remain the same. By the time I finish this prayer, O God, someone else may have been killed, silenced, or ignored,Still I pray for change. By the time I finish this prayer,… Read More
Friday Prayer
Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. -Jeremiah 17:5-6 Oh Source… Read More
Monday Prayer + Choose Hope
This past week, people around the world gave thanks for the life of Archbishop Demond Tutu, who died the day after Christmas. Like many long-lived saints, it seemed at times that he would be with us always, but at 90 his work was completed. Last week as I googled my way through quotes I ran… Read More
Monday Prayer – Last Words
Ceaseless Creator – This week many of us walk toward a new church year. Give us the will to wrap up or snip off the dangling strings of the things we have left undone until now. Give us grace when we can’t find our scissors, and when we can’t let things go. Give us insight… Read More
Friday Prayer
For the ones who are waiting, Who hear endless “not yets”, The ones who are told their time will come, But it can’t be now Because, because, because. For the ones whose hope is fragile, Wispy and barely tangible, God, be a consolation, Hear their weeping, Be their answer in holy fullness. Make now the… Read More