God of hope and vision, you have called us to invest our lives in new possibilities, in dreams that we cannot imagine but that reside within the restlessness of your Holy Spirit. You have imagined a night without fear, an eternal season without drought without hunger...
Most Holy God, Most Mysterious God, we dare to approach you and to say in all candor that you have been a balm and you have been a bother. You have soothed and healed our troubled hearts; you have disrupted and upended our complacent lives. In all things, we give you...
My God, we are such wrecks: Prone to our whims & fancies, gleefully chasing passing delights, passively fixating on war & worry. It is easy to take the easy way. It is tempting to settle for doing & giving less than our best…and while we’re at...