Ascension

May 8, 2016 | prayer

Most High God, in the space of prayer we draw near to you, trusting that you are already near to us — as close as our breath, as close as the heartbeat within our chest. You are brilliant and powerful, the Delight of the heavens, the Song of the mountains, the...

Sunday Prayer

May 1, 2016 | prayer

Almighty God be gracious to us, bless us in your mercy, and shine your face upon us. O God our God, Wellspring of Life: to you is due all praise and thanksgiving. Yours is the peace that passes understanding. Yours is the mystery that invites faith. Yours is the love...

Transfiguration

Feb 7, 2016 | prayer

O Lord, you are our Lord. Eternal God, you are our God. Brother Jesus, you are the Savior. Sweet Spirit, you are our Life. Many days, O God, we do not know much — not much about crafting peace from war, not much about convicting the world’s greed of its...

Sunday Prayer

Jan 31, 2016 | love, prayer

Ah, Lord GOD, we do not know how to begin or where, for you are eternal and we are finite; you so loving and we so very wounded; creation so vast and we are only a few within it. What praise can we offer that is not a clanging gong? What prayer can we say to bend your...

Sunday Prayer

Jan 24, 2016 | prayer

Most holy God, you who are our good news, you who are the prisoners’ release, you who are the glad dance of the weary, you who are the beginning and the fulfillment; Our prayers are not celestial hymns or heavenly speech, but these words bear our hearts, our...

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