Cooking with Elsa

Ingredients for Worship

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13B

    We have moved into our home and there is now work being done to install new heaters in our very old building. The wall of the garden behind our home was a fortification built to protect the city from Napoleon.… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13B

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 12B

    It happened again. I missed a week. I’m so sorry and I hope and pray that you found words to inspire and delight you in worship. There are so many good words out there right now and I’m honored to… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 12B

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B

    I loved the movie. I did. I still do but I always found this one repeated line creepy. It’s the same line that I hear repeated in the Gospel Lesson forcing us to wonder how any one of us will… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B

  • Pandemic Prayers for Returning to In-Person Worship

    I have hesitated to share any particular prayers for gathering together in-person again because it feels so unique to each circumstance. There is something particular about this experience. It involves a particular group of people. It is the unique story… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Returning to In-Person Worship

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth of July

    I confess that I don’t really know the date. We have lived in this hotel for nearly a month now and I have lost all sense of time so that it was not evident to me that the calendar would… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth of July

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 8B

    I love the healing stories in the Gospel of Mark. There are two in this pericope and the first part is my very favorite. It seems all the more poignant this year when we are reaching for possibility and trying… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 8B

  • Last Minute Pandemic Prayers for Proper 7B

    Though I am struggling to find a new normal, our world continues to turn. It has been announced that there is hope that the EU will open to American tourists leaving me to wonder if this is good news. Is… Continue reading

    Last Minute Pandemic Prayers for Proper 7B

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 6B

    We have been in Germany a whole week. In fact, it has been a week and a day now. I’m still not sleeping well as my tiny children adjust their bodies to a time zone a whole ocean away. These… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 6B

  • Pandemic Pentecost Affirmations

    I read this morning that there are more churches closing in the wake of the pandemic. I have seen the reports about attendance and listened to how hard it is to wait in that Zoom room for anyone to join… Continue reading

    Pandemic Pentecost Affirmations

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Sixth Sunday of Easter

    I adore the repetition that the beloved community offers in trying to embody the call to love. It’s why my prayers these past few weeks have been drawn to the epistle first but it doesn’t quite reverberate with the way… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Sixth Sunday of Easter