Maybe your week, your month, your decade has felt oppressive and grim. Maybe you are overcome with anger at the continued unjust treatment of racial, cultural and sexual minorities. Or maybe you are facing what feel like insurmountable tasks and responsibilities. This prayer was birthed out of my own need to look to the Light… Read More
Thursday Prayer: like a bird
Dear Holy Spirit, A sacred kingfisher came to sit on the fence today and I was having an Important Conversation about identity and vocation, about solid ground, tūrangawaewae, a place to stand; and I was reminded that birds do not exist only on solidity: they perch on branches that sway, and on telegraph wires; they… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: A Cup of Cold Water
When I read through the texts for this week my first thought was that the whole world needs a cup of cold water. We need to stop worrying about who has the better cup, or who deserves a drink, or who should be first to drink and just hold out a cup for the first… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: We are Not Left to our own Devices
There is something within us that resists limitations and authority. We don’t like to admit that we have so little control over our lives and that humanity is not the ultimate authority on much of anything. I’ve been thinking about something I read many years ago by Peggy Way. She wrote about “the fact of… Read More
Saturday Prayer
PEACE. Calm in the midst of chaos. Steadying in the midst of swaying. Trust in the midst of turmoil. BE. A remembrance to breathe when anxiety causes one to forget. A remembrance to give thanks when circumstances make doing so seem like a lofty goal. A remembrance to allow for awe when conditions cloud one’s… Read More
