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 [...]
Epiphany Invocation
O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow […]
Epiphany Invocation
Still savouring the season of Epiphany, and feeling the cold, I've revisited an earlier post.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prayer for Beginning a Meeting
Holy One, We come, each carrying our own story our own vision our own hopes and our own purpose all to be threaded into the great [...]
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 [...]