Ingredients for Worship

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 28

    As in the days before ballots were being counted, music is where my heart is led. I haven’t yet turned on the Christmas carols but I’m close. I’m really close. Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 28
  • Pandemic Liturgy for Advent

    If you read my newsletter, you may have already clicked over to these painting advent videos and wondered what might be done with them. I started thinking about them again Continue reading

    Pandemic Liturgy for Advent
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 27

    As I continue to try to write these prayers ahead of the Lectionary cycle, I’m writing these prayers when early voting is still happening in the state of Texas among others. I’ve cast my ballot but I do not know… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 27
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 25

    My constant refrain in these days is to bellow “what is time?” I think I might intend it as a joke when it shows up as a blue bubble reply in a text message chain, but I’m not really sure.… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 25
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 24

    October brings celebrations in our house and so I’m working on planning ahead as you may have seen over on RevGalBlogPals last week. I shared prayers last week in their weekly Worship Words for this week’s worship including a Prayer… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 24
  • Pandemic Liturgy for All Saints Sunday

    This is one of my very favorite celebrations of the church. I have long lamented that there are not enough spaces in the church calendar to share our grief. This is one of the few. Continue reading

    Pandemic Liturgy for All Saints Sunday
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 23

    The President has the virus. In some capacity, we are all reacting to this. We are reacting to how he is responding to treatments. We are questioning our own faith as we try to summon prayers and compassion. Some of… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 23
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 21

    It has been a bad week. Can we admit that? Can we conspire in that little bit of honesty? A lot of bad shit is happening. I’m not sorry for my language. I am mad and you’re probably mad too.… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 21
  • Pandemic Prayers for World Communion Sunday

    In the churches I’ve served, this was always a Sunday people looked forward to. It wasn’t a celebration that they remembered from childhood but it was something that has become meaningful and important. There was always careful planning to make… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for World Communion Sunday
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 20

    It has been six months. I lost count. I could have sworn it had been longer since my husband redeployed from South Korea and we almost immediately cancelled the vacation I’d been looking forward to for nine months and went… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 20