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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 27
This wonderful gospel story always hits right after stewardship season has ended. Or so it always seemed to me so that it became something important but not quite at the heart of this good news. Pledges still needed to come… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 25
A blind beggar started to shout and they silenced him. They ordered him to be quiet. I don’t know why that is jumping out at me right now. Is it that I have been silenced so many times as a… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 24
I remember the last time this passage from Job popped up in the Revised Common Lectionary. I remember thinking that the whirlwind was how I felt then. I wish I didn’t still feel that now. Still, I went looking for… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 23
For only the second time in this pandemic, I recorded a sermon to be shared in worship. I wrote a sermon and preached it sitting at my dining room table. I sent the children away so that they wouldn’t distract… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday
The world doesn’t feel like it did last year when I offered pandemic prayers for what I had thought would be the one and only pandemic World Communion Sunday in my lifetime. It feels different now. This is the song… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 17B
They noticed that some of the disciples were eating with defiled hands. Just reading that line sends a chill down my spine after these many months of worrying about how much I wash my hands. We have just returned from… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 15B and 16B
I feel like I should be living with abundance but then I read this. Like every other parent, I am exhausted. I am tense with worry and trying like hell to make the best decisions fo my kids while still… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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