Autumn
Holy One, May we come to this momentAs though we were a gardenAnd You the softening rain […]
Return: A Kind of Blessing
For you who are returning; turned again to what feels regular, routine, or even pressed. See, just here – droplets of the moments when your [...]
Summer Lectio: A sacred reading of your summer
Just through the farthest kitchen window this morning I saw the first turned leaf. Seeing it there through glass and across the room I felt [...]
Blessing the Backpacks: blessing with bubbles
(The worship leader could say the words of the following prayer alone or it could become an echo prayer with the children and any who bring [...]
For those who fish ~ blessing
Blessings for those who fish at the opening of the season.
O Spirit Come
O dove O fire O breath O tide O wave O water like laughter […]
A Touching Place
On this nightwe know you as loving hostand beloved guest.On this night we follow you to the edge of your sorrow,a sorrow that holds all our [...]
The Heart in it
Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. (Photo: Thibault Camus/AP) No shape of wood or even [...]
Holy 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 [...]
A Lenten Confession
God of setting out and arrival and of the road between we lay down, with reverent attention those things that we have taken up to protect [...]