Sep 11, 2016 | grace, 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...
Sep 9, 2016 | grace, psalm
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...
Sep 4, 2016 | grace, prayer
Glorious God, Merciful God: we humble ourselves before you, grateful for your brilliance … lamenting our failings, glad in your goodness … longing for our redemption. Each day, we look to you and we watch the world for symbols of your grace and love: the...
Jul 24, 2016 | grace, prayer
Hear the prayers of your people, O God, from the silent depths of the oceans to the pounding tides of the shore, from the tears poured out in crowded streets to the songs raised joyfully under the open sky. What are our prayers to the foundation of your grace? Not...
Feb 26, 2016 | grace, Lent, nature, prayer, resurrection
My God and my delight, my rock and my blessing: you who can grow a daffodil where a thorn has been planted, you who can dance with new life after death has decreed its sentence: help my spirit watch eagerly for your love though my mind expects your absence; tune my...
Feb 16, 2016 | communion, discipleship, grace, Lent, prayer
Bless this bread, bless this gather, may we live for you each hour. Send us out with bread not stone, so that no one eats alone. In a world full of fear keep us always drawing near to your body in each place where we might again learn grace. Bless this bread, bless...
