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A Thousand Hosts
Today steadfastly we tie bright ribbons to our hearts so hope can find a way. We scatter folded cranes of peace each crease hard won. We are not heedless of the tremors of the world, not unafraid. not free of anger But we are a thousand, thousand hosts; compassion on the lintel The neighbour may…
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Seeing Saints
Luke 19:1-10 This day near the threshold of All Saints, I invite you into this morning’s story looking for saints. I invite you to enter holding in mind the Godly Play question: “I wonder what part of the story is about you?” I invite you to “immerse yourself in the story and identify with…
Read MoreHoly Wednesday
Wednesday of Holy Week seems one of the days orphaned from its ritual parents. Swung soundlessly between the arms of Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday it feels unmarked in my community. I understand the text of anointing with spikenard is often associated with this day in the liturgy and the negotiations of Judas Iscariot…
Read MoreO Spirit Come
O dove O fire O breath O tide O wave O water like laughter
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Praying with Bowls
On Sunday we’ll be coming to the Trinity with cadences of Celtic Liturgy and with imaginings of colour and movement and relationship. Circles seem to rise naturally as the worship unfolds itself in me this week. So we will be praying with bowls, acknowledging the circle of their rim, the threshold of our pouring in…
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A Contemplative Eastertide
O Spirit O Silence O Risen One O Gate O Garden O Press of the Grass O Call O Healer O Love Gone Before Us O Breath O Life O Catcher of Tears O Spirit O Silence O Risen One Alleluia!
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In the Crowd
I have to say Palm Sunday sometimes makes me angry. Even though, or perhaps because, I am in that crowd, cheering with the rest of them for the safest bet, the quickest fix, the most obvious answer. In my heart I know with certainty that life requires of me a deeper attention.
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Prayer for the Road
God of setting out and arrival and the road between, we lay down, with reverent attention those things that we have taken up to protect us – from You and from one another.
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Transfiguration
Holy One, We have come carrying our days, like torches or tea lights, touching darkness. Who knows by the thing that is lifted, the question the song, the touch, the story of light strange and holy as sunrise ~ Who knows what belovedness will become transparent to us, in us. We have come carrying our…
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Epiphany Invocation
Epiphany Invocation O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow O sweep of stars O brightness of tears O word of fire O shining hope O gentle comfort O radiance of the ordinary moment O God O sun on the field of my heart Draw near
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Hearts Like Cups
Arise, lift up your hearts and shine, For God’s brightness is covering us. God, holding out to us gifts, gifts of the star-child: courage for love and for wonder hope in those places we cannot see, the Holy Presence in suffering and joy. God’s brightness is covering us. We hold out our hearts like cups…
Read MoreStarlight and Slippers
Matthew 2:1-12 There was an Epiphany that found me travelling home from a small town the other side of Toronto. I carried, along with all my bags and books, the story of the magi that we heard today. Drawn by the motion of travel into an interior world, in my imagination the magi journeyed again; their…
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