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 [...]
For those who fish ~ blessing, song, and ritual
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Epiphany Invocation
Still savouring the season of Epiphany, and feeling the cold, I've revisited an earlier post.
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 [...]
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 [...]