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Is it really so much trouble, O God, to respond to your people’s cries? Have you truly turned a deaf ear for centuries? Or can you not hear the mothers’ wailings over the sound of gunshots and bullhorns? Do you no longer care to notice the blatant...

Hopeless

I have some not-so-polite things to pray today, God, starting with: You suck. . Also: You’re falling down on the job. . Where is your balm to the brokenhearted when pain is looped publicly on video for voyeurism and ratings? . Is there no more freedom your...

Faithful

Is it true, God, that you are faithful even when life is a gauntlet of troubles and each day seems longer than the next? Is it true that your inheritance is plentiful even though we squander and fight and steal in jealous fear that we must secure ours? Is it true, O...

Sunday Prayer

How grateful we are, O God, to call on your name. Morning and evening, noon and night, you are our comfort and our confidence. We reach out to you when days are hard. We lean on you when memories break our hearts. We smile at you when life is amazingly good. We are...

Lo! (Scenes from a Coffee Shop)

Lo! Look: the sun bathes the parking lot in red, easing us into the night with its best colors. Lo! Look: a father laughs with his toddler while a nurse caffeinates for the night shift. Lo! Look: a lover on the phone discreetly wipes a tear trying to keep her world in...

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