invocation
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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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Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 5
The other night I read such encouraging words from the editors of the New York Times reminding us again that we shouldn’t get caught up in the ineffectiveness of the vaccine. It’s not even infections that scientists are worried about… Continue reading
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An Advent Invocation
Remember when I said I wasn’t going to offer weekly prayers? That is still my intention but it seems that I cannot write Christmas Eve without first wandering into the lamentation and hope of Advent. I have been working on… Continue reading
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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
Cooking with Elsa 