Creation

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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Protected: Playing in Creation

September 2, 2023
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Falling

October 20, 2021
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Table Church ~ Beginning

September 30, 2020
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Always, we begin again. Benedict When I was imagining how the frame of these gatherings might be built, I thought of the flavour I taste in each month.  In September, even though I’ve been out of school for a while, I still taste beginnings.  The fall crisp gives me an energy boost and I am…

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Song of our Bodies; Site of our Blessing

August 30, 2018
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The one who rises gracefully before us, in this moment, is the Shulammite women. We might listen avidly or uneasily or both for we have heard of the lyrics of her song. A song of sexual desire, of longing and invitation and fulfilment, a song explicit in expression. Though we have heard this song often…

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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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Rising

September 10, 2016
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Today doesn’t look like this for me.  There is no great glory caught between the cupped hands of cloud and mountain.  Still, even resistant, this body recognizes those wisps rising from something hidden;  those  breaths warmly exhaled in this day’s blue moment, sighing a soft,  unavoidable grace in the sky of my heart. Image: Grand…

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Holding the Unwrapped Gift with Reverence

February 10, 2015
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I’ve been thinking this week about gifts and thresholds; the moment you open one or the moment you cross another.  This orchid is the way the moment looks, that moment that can be the length of a breath, or a glance, or a lifetime; the moment before you unwrap the gift that will change you or…

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