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Holy Watering One, dear Fount of Every Blessing, We come to you this morning, Opening our parched places to receive the springs of living water You offer to us. Most of the time, most of us don’t even know we are thirsty. We don’t know the deep dehydration that scours our bones and parches our… Read More
Holy One of the Rugged Hills, Our help is in you. You are steadfast, strong, and still. You, who made all that is, this whole universe, You know where we stand, You will not let us slip or stumble to our end. No, You do not sleep. You do not slumber. You keep us in… Read More
Wild Creator, From the earth dust you formed us, bone and blood, sinew and muscles, heart and mind and soul. You took a chance, making us in your image. Perhaps you knew what a risk that was, perhaps not. What’s amazing, is that to this day, in all of our imperfectness, You know us as… Read More
Traveling God, You find us, wherever we are, when we are toiling, numb to the possibility that we might be called to belovedness and belonging. Your call is so urgent, so clear to leave what we know to discover that what seems impossible~ justice, mercy, love, equality, kin-dom is your complete and possible dream, and… Read More
Holy One of Sabbath and Struggle, We come before you this morning, mindful of of your presence with us and in us, mindful of the connections we share with whom we worship. You have gifted us with this hour of worship. You have shared your Sabbath rest, pouring it upon our hearts and souls, bathing… Read More
Oh Beautiful Holy One, We know. We know that the sorrow, the terror, the awfulness of horror and hate are not because of You. It’s because Sin. It’s because of Hurt. It’s because of Narrowness, Pulled-in Fear, It’s because of Unaware Brokeness. We pray for Forgiveness, because without it, we are Lost. because… Read More
Ah holy One, in this season of Advent, we wait for you to break into our worlds, unexpectedly. Help us to stay awake, to be aware, to hope against hope. We pray for your peace in this world when You will settle things fairly between nations, and make things right between peoples. We pray… Read More
We call upon You, lover of justice, maker of a new heaven and a new earth, promiser of words and wisdom. We call upon You, the One who tells us not to be weary of doing right, the One who believes that wolves and lambs can be safe together, the One who sees that nations… Read More
Holy One, On this day, within this hour, in this minute, this breath, and space between breathing, We come to you. We come with our hearts full, and our minds crowded with too much And so, we offer to you the complexity of life~ our tension, our anxiety, our worries, our frets, our fears, our… Read More
Holy One, of lament and liberation, of tiny seeds and mulberry trees, We come before you now in this moment where heaven and earth meet in silent hearts and racing minds. We have little faith, yet what we have is enough for You. You take the crumbs of our hope, and increase them into the… Read More
