God of all peoples, We are filled with anxiety at the uncertainty. The shock and pain of the past inform our now. We yearn for peace, joy, hope, and compassion while worrying that power, greed, and disregard will carry the…
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Groundedness & Restlessness
Oh Greatness Abundant! We gather together, one part of the whole people of earth.We claim you as ours, yet it is we who are yours. We are your beloved among beloved. Whatever our nationality, our skin tone, or orientation, or…
Morning Prayer
Creator of the mountains, the rivers, and the rolling hills, You reached down to the dust and molded us in your image. You breathed your divine breath into us. You made us to be in relationship with one another and…
Posted in Pastoral Prayer, Prayers
Releasing the Noise; Hoping Fully
Creating, Relating, Loving One: We come to this moment filled inside with the clutter of our week, the pressing-in of our worries, the excitement of our joys, and the loud thoughts of elsewhere. [SILENCE] As we feel the chair beneath…
Prayer Before a Congregational Meeting About Money
O Creating One, You took the chaos,forming the waters, land, and sky. You took the earth, held her in your hands,and populated it with animals of the sea, sky, and land. You created your people to love you,and one another…
Prayer for a Rough Week
Embracing Spirit, it’s been a rough week more shootings political discord polarization our hopes dashed and the death of loved ones it’s also been a hopeful week relationships & connections kindnesses shown & commitments to the stranger and the birth…
The Continuously Creating Love
Creating One, in all your magnificence you are changing and adapting in relationship with us and all of creation. We see this in your great rivers which change courses in response to cliffs. We see this in the chameleon’s adaptive…
Tagged with: cisgender, creating, creation, Genesis, God, Greatest Commandment, image of God, imago dei, transformation, transgender
Posted in Prayers, Uncategorized
Posted in Prayers, Uncategorized
A Prayer for the Snowbound
When the troubles come, and we struggle just to connect… When we yearn for movement, and we are snowed in so deep… When the simple, has become a chore… We rightly cry out to you, “Enough! Stop it! Why me?”…
Tagged with: overwhelmed, snow, snowbound
Posted in for homebound, Homebound, Prayers, Uncategorized
Posted in for homebound, Homebound, Prayers, Uncategorized
Re-membering in Discordant Times
May we re-member in this discordant time that we are all One. Move us to act as One, humbly and resolutely calling out injustice. Give us the courage and passion to build a world in which all share in power…
A Prayer After Paris
For the people of Paris, we pray but we also pray for the invisible peoples whose daily lives — in our own nation and across the globe — are enmeshed in violence. We confess that too often we turn a…
