Prayers

Autumn

September 29, 2017
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Holy One, May we come to this momentas though we were a gardenand You the softening rain

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Holy Wednesday

April 12, 2017
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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 Jesus’ anointing with spikenard is often associated with this day in the liturgy and the negotiations of Judas Iscariot with…

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Epiphany Invocation

January 7, 2017
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 O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow

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Return: A Kind of Blessing

September 3, 2016
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For youturned again to what feels regular,routineor even pressed, See,just here –droplets of the momentswhen your heart took onthe rhythm of the tidesor trailed through long, hot grasseswith cicadas’ soundsor felt the city sun,or sand For youwhose eyes were pricked with gratitudewhen touseled children slept, close at hand,and evening cooledand you went lightly. For you who…

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Holy Wednesday

July 16, 2016
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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…

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O Spirit Come

June 3, 2016
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O dove O fire O breath O tide O wave O water like laughter

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Praying with Bowls

May 20, 2016
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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

April 9, 2016
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  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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Prayer for the Road

March 5, 2016
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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

February 6, 2016
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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

January 19, 2016
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  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

January 3, 2016
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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…

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