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Prayers for a Storytelling Advent
All of the sudden, the church year is ending. The world is turning again. We sang this song in worship last Sunday and I’m carrying this refrain with me as I try to believe that the world is about to… Continue reading
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Prayers for Revelatory Hope on Easter 3c
When Elaine Pagels describes the writer of these words in Revelation 5:11-14, she describes him “pacing restlessly along the sea by day and lying awake at night.” She elaborates in her book Revelations that this is a guy that is… Continue reading
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Wilderness Prayers for Lent
Six more weeks of wintered trudgingthrough a wilderness bereft of alleluias. The poet describes Another Lent beginning in a wilderness without any sort of praise. There is no joy because it doesn’t feel like anything matters. It is all dust.… Continue reading
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Prayers for Proper 22B
Job’s question is the most difficult part of faith. Why do bad things happen to good people? Job gets it. Job understands the frustration of not having an answer to this question. But, his wife interrupts. Curse God and die,… Continue reading
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Prayers for Proper 23B
I can’t think about this man’s question to Jesus about eternal life without thinking of this passage that I recently read in Cole Arthur Riley’s This Here Flesh: I was sitting in McDonald’s wot my first Bible-study leader when I… Continue reading
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Prayers for the Second Sunday of Easter
These prayers were written after searching long and hard for other prayers. I didn’t want to write my own. I wanted anyone else’s words to magnify my hopes for worship this Sunday but I just couldn’t find what I was… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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