Prayers

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A Candlemas Prayer and Reflection

January 31, 2025
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February 2nd is a day of many names, Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation and a new one to me this year; the feast of Holy Encounter. I like that. It’s also World Wetlands Day and of course Groundhog Day. It’s the first two in the list I want to linger with here. A candle lit…

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Guided Lectio Divina

December 2, 2024
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Lectio Divina, Divine or Sacred Reading is a way of prayer that uses a text as a portal to receptive stillness. Scripture, poetry, a paragraph of writing, even your life can be a text. When you’ve chosen a text you can listen below to be guided through the movements. Lectio Divina  Divine Reading Whatever the…

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Visio with a Garden

August 23, 2024
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We open ourselves to the wisdom waiting for our hearts in the garden.

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This too is a mystery: a creation prayer

September 2, 2023
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In this prayer, if it is used in a group, children and or adults use shakers* as a response each time we say this is a mystery, shaking them in a mysterious way, (hopefully). You can ask someone beforehand to lead the way in the shaking.  Perhaps it will be a loud and vigorous mystery. Holy…

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Blessing the Backpacks (with bubbles)

July 31, 2023
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(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 backpacks repeating the line after the leader.)   Loving God,You are with us in every placeAt homeAt schoolOn vacationIn places that feel wonderful and places that feel scaryYou are…

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Peace Holds Us

March 3, 2023
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Holy One, yesterday in the woods, the late afternoon light was so tender and strong, the shadows made art on the snow and the sky prepared to relax into the night.

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Bending into Advent

November 29, 2022
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I entered Advent as a bent woman. I could not raise my head to see the blue stem of the candle and its blossom of light. I was a woman bowed for a week and today I am straightened, unfurled.

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A Prayer for Our Return to School

August 31, 2022
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Holy One, May our school year begin with compassion for where we are,uncertain,tired,and glad to see one another. May we begin with a thirstto learn ——students from teachersand teachers from students.

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On the Edge of Thanksgiving

October 10, 2020
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As this day closes may you go gently quiet prayers in your pockets, perhaps overflowing. Small blessings, a touch, a voice a memory, beauty, scattered on the border of daylight and darkness. May they unfold in dreams fertile with Grace. And if despair has been caught in the creases of this day may it be honoured,…

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For those who fish ~ blessing, song, and ritual

August 7, 2020
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Blessings for those who fish at the opening of the season.

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O Spirit Come

June 8, 2019
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  O dove O fire O breath O tide O wave O water like laughter

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A Touching Place

April 18, 2019
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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 own.On this night, O Christ of table and touch,Our longings mingle.

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