Sep 27, 2015 | blessing, prayer
Hear our prayer, O LORD our God. You are perfect in your ways, beautiful in your love, desirable in your wisdom, powerful in your vast mystery. We are in awe and we are in fear. Bless us as we wrestle. Bless us, we ask, with the breaking of a new day. So often we pray...
Jul 17, 2015 | blessing, justice, psalm
When you are weary, may the LORD show you a well. When you are embattled, may the name of the LORD be your guard. When you are lost and scared, may God send you a kind companion. When you are found, may you return the favor. When all hell breaks loose, may heaven rush...
Mar 10, 2015 | blessing, grace, Lent, prayer
With an open heart to learn and to love may God bless me in these moments.
Feb 26, 2015 | blessing, Lent, scripture
May your foundation be the one eternal Rock and let all other rocks tremble. May your wisdom study God’s foolishness and let your mouth know humility. May you be hungry for God’s satisfaction and let your treasures fade to dust. May your steps be guarded...
Feb 19, 2015 | blessing, justice, lament, Lent, prayer
Shall it always be, O God, that one be given favor and the other be cast to wilderness? Must it be that one alone may feast while his brother scrambles for crumbs; that a sister dances and twirls with delight while her twin laments amidst ashes? What justice is it if...
Dec 27, 2013 | blessing, poem, thanksgiving
You smile at me in such a way that makes us both cry (a little) for love of these ordinary moments of watching life go by together: how the kids grow and how the world repeats itself (for better and for worse) and how love deepens miraculously tho the scars. All these...
