Holy Healer, Give us the courage to stretch our hand to touch your garment of healing. No matter how we have been judged, or how we judge ourselves, help us to know that You long to listen to our stories, and you long to know our truth. Merciful Border Crosser, Move us to places… Read More
Sunday Prayer
O for a thousand tongues to sing sweet praise! O rushing wild spirit of God pour out the fire of love upon us! Unfurl your language upon our lips, Unlock our minds to embrace all possibility Unleash our hearts so Your justice flows freely. O for a thousand tongues to sing sweet praise! O rushing… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Whales
O God of all Creation, Of heavens and earth, and all of the creatures who fill it, and the landscape that shows your artful hand, We give you thanks. We clap our hands with the floods, We sing with the hills, We dance with the trees, We raise our hands to the stars and marvel… Read More
Sunday Prayer
(with a nod to Psalm 107) Spacious Love, You gather us in, From the east and west, From the south and north, and every place in between to the heart of your deliverance. We seek you in the cloak of evening shadows, and You are there. We cry out to you, with fainting souls,… Read More
Sunday Prayer
We come to you this morning, Your shivering and sweating people, Seeking your presence Among us and around us. We follow moons and stars and suns and hopes and dreams to find You. We look for doves from heaven and manna on the ground to discover You. We trudge through snow sodden sidewalks to hear… Read More
Sunday Prayer
God of sorting and of all sorts, We come to you this morning With the hope of the world in our hearts, and with the hope of the world on our shoulders. We pray that our hearts and minds be so open and filled with your presence that we might live with reckless compassion, offering… Read More
Sunday Prayer
God of oil and light, of banquets and justice, We come to you now, With our hearts full with all that is fractured and frayed in our world. We live in a time of polarities, Of who is in and who is out, who is right and who is wrong, Those who are empty,… Read More
Sunday Prayer
Understanding One, In these moments, our hearts and minds are tuned to your Spirit, Guiding, Chiding, Holding, and Nudging us to peel back the layers of surfaces that keep us from your Truth. Peeling back all that protects us, our perceptions, our identities, our accomplishments, even our fears to expose the bare tender skin of… Read More
Sunday Prayer
Holy One, On this day, in this hour, at this very moment, We turn our whole hearts and minds and souls to You. Meet us in our beings, as we bid You to come in and stay. There is so much, even too much to pray for, and yet we beseech you with our… Read More
Sunday Prayer
Holy One, Your Love. Oh! We are scattered and shattered, Reckless and reckoning, We throw and toss and hope something sticks… or takes root, and You just say, “I’ve got this, dear servant. Go out and scatter some more. ” Amen. The Rev. Karla Miller is Minister for Community Life at Old North Church… Read More
