I have been so lucky to write prayers in this season that I know have been a blessing. Some of you have kindly commented and encouraged me. Some have messaged me and thanked me personally. Others have commissioned me to curate prayers for their congregation through a series of their own design. (If you areContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Palm Sunday”
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Pandemic Prayers for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
We began the new year with Jeremiah. It was the same chapter even though it was a few verses earlier. There was still the invitation to remember and hold onto what might be coming. We are still in that space so many weeks later as Lent begins to turn into Holy Week. Likewise, we heardContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for the Fifth Sunday of Lent”
An Easter Pageant for a Pandemic Year
This year, we have done things differently. Worship has been different and there have been surprises. There are things that have happened in worship that never would have been possible if we had not been forced into online worship for the care of every beloved child of God. Sometimes, different is good. It invites usContinue reading “An Easter Pageant for a Pandemic Year”
Holy Week in Coronatide
I hadn’t yet started writing pandemic prayers when Holy Week came along last year. Like so many, I was blissfully unaware of what was ahead. We had cancelled a vacation that we will actually be venturing into next week. My husband had just redeployed from Korea. I have had a mental block about how closelyContinue reading “Holy Week in Coronatide”
Waiting for Resurrection in Coronatide
Easter will come just as it has every year before because resurrection is promised. It happens even when we cannot fully comprehend its possibility. Resurrection still happens. I have been thinking a lot about hope this Lent. I’ve been thinking about its texture and its sensation. It can come to live inside us and itContinue reading “Waiting for Resurrection in Coronatide”
Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
I’m thinking about my own prayer life a lot right now. I’m wondering about how I’m caring for the tender part of my soul that needs to grieve and sing and wonder — and it’s hard. It’s hard to find that space in this long season for parents whether we have children learning online orContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent”
Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent
I am trying to spend some time working on Holy Week things this week but I will confess I don’t think that I have ever preached on the Ten Commandments but opted to skip over it. It never felt like there was more to say about these words etched in stone. In these pandemic days,Continue reading “Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent”
Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent
I really relate to Abraham falling on his face. I don’t think that has anything to do with the pandemic but the simple fact that I’m always tripping over myself. I am my own worst critic. I am endlessly hard on myself for things that I have said and done. I always believe I canContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent”
Pandemic Prayers for the Return of Lent
I do not feel ready for this season to arrive. I know that it will be different. It will be less disciplined but no less introspective than every other day since that first case changed our whole lives. There is the Lent that I typically yearn to experience where I exert extra energy on figuringContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for the Return of Lent”
Pandemic Easter Affirmations
I wanted to write a statement about what it means to be a person of faith when everything feels uncertain for the service I wrote for the Longest Night in 2020. I did it partially for myself. I needed words to speak to what I believe right now, but I also wanted to provide someContinue reading “Pandemic Easter Affirmations”
Cooking with Elsa 