Oct 7, 2018 | confession, prayer
It is too much, O God, even on the good days: too much to hold love and imagination, too much to hold injustice and despair. Will you hold us? Will you hold it all so that we can lay down everything we believed ourselves able to carry? Yours is time, O God our Call...
Aug 26, 2018 | confession, hope, prayer
O God, our Creator and our Sovereign, there is no God like you — not in heaven and certainly not on earth — no other god who keeps promises and is faithful in love. Our lives are before you, day by day, and our hearts are full of wonder as they strive to...
Jun 24, 2018 | confession, justice, prayer
We pray to the LORD, by whom life’s cornerstone was laid, for whom the heavens shout, and in whom justice is promised. For the overwhelmed to know hope, for the cowardly to know culpability, for the threatened to know sanctuary, we pray to the LORD. For those...
Jun 17, 2018 | confession, prayer
God of all love and mercy, forgive us. We have failed one another — we have failed your image in each person and all creation. God of all love and mercy, surprise us. With mustard seeds, with wild dreams, with grace, replace our self-assurance with childlike...
Jan 21, 2018 | confession, prayer
Hear our prayer, O LORD: for the relief of the suffering, for the judgment of the malicious . . . and we are both, sometimes one more than the other, and most of all we are selfish and self-sufficing. Hear our prayer, O LORD, that you would have mercy on us as much as...
Dec 3, 2017 | Advent, confession, prayer
O Burning Fire, O Boiling Rage, in these days of sin there are none who dare whisper your name or draw close to the intensity of your righteousness. We have sworn to you our love but you have found us disloyal — too easily swayed by the passions of worldly...
