Ingredients for Worship

  • Pandemic Psalms for Third Sunday after Epiphany

    In this season after Epiphany, I’m focusing all of my energy on the psalms. As I shared last week, I’m offering one prayer inspired by the psalm from the Revised Common Lectionary knowing there are tons of wonderful resources out… Continue reading

    Pandemic Psalms for Third Sunday after Epiphany
  • Pandemic Psalms for Second Sunday after Epiphany

    I want the bright lights that send the wise people home by another way to carry beyond Epiphany Sunday. I want it to be something that we continue to find again and again in the weeks that follow as we… Continue reading

    Pandemic Psalms for Second Sunday after Epiphany
  • Christmas Blessings

    Advent is the strangest time to not be in the parish. I don’t find the same to be true in Lent because most people aren’t busy like pastors are busy in that season. But when December rolls around, everyone seems… Continue reading

    Christmas Blessings
  • New Year Epiphanies

    There is a lot that we hope for in this new year. There is so much we hope for that I dared to tag this worship service with the audacious claim that this worship might end the pandemic.  It won’t.… Continue reading

    New Year Epiphanies
  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Advent

    This lovely meditation on the Magnificat was in my email from The Work of the People a few days ago. I love the slightest twist on the more familiar words from those verses in Luke’s first chapter. If you’re looking… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
  • Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Advent

    A few years ago, I heard Gaudete by Brad Reynolds in worship and I loved it so much that I have no idea what happened through the rest of the service. I was lost in wonder of these joy-filled words.… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Advent
  • Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Advent

    Last week, I shared my own candle lighting liturgy for Advent but then Maren Tirabassi posted this beautifully simply liturgy inspired by Howard Thurman and I love it. If you haven’t chosen something because you’re exhausted and it’s Thanksgiving and… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Advent
  • Pandemic Prayers for the First Sunday of Advent

    It was just yesterday that I was in a Zoom meeting daydreaming about what Advent might look like in 2022 with my collaborators at Seasons of the Spirit FUSION. It was such a fun conversation with so many ideas on… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the First Sunday of Advent
  • Pandemic Prayers for Reign of Christ

    Time still eludes me. I had forgotten that I had managed to work a week ahead in what I offer here in these pandemic prayers. It hasn’t always been that way and I’m sure I’ll fall behind again but I… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers  for Reign of Christ
  • Pandemic Prayer Stations for Proper 28

    A few weeks ago, in Zoom worship, someone popped on the screen while on a walk. She had been walking the whole service around her neighborhood while still being present for worship. It made me giggle but it also reminded… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayer Stations for Proper 28