pandemic

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13

    I’m finding it hard to enter the power of the miracle in Matthew’s Feeding of the Five Thousand. I feel myself withdraw and not in the prayerful and restorative manner that we imagine Jesus does in that thirteenth verse. Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 12

    It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 12
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 11

    It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 11
  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10

    It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10
  • Pandemic Prayers for Vacation Bible School

    It is Vacation Bible School week in our house which means there is a ton more screen time than usual as we share in learning about the light of the world. It’s a curricula entirely created by the staff and… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Vacation Bible School
  • How Shall We Pray?

    For the past several weeks, I’ve offered prayers as a gift to my colleagues in ministry who are serving faithfully during this pandemic. I’ve written liturgies following the Revised Common Lectionary that I have hoped were copied and pasted into… Continue reading

    How Shall We Pray?
  • Pandemic Prayers for Pentecost

    At the end of the last week, I sat on a picnic blanket in my backyard with my two babies reading the Ascension from their new Sparkhouse Story Bible. (I discovered that Sparkhouse is offering… More Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Pentecost
  • Pandemic Prayers for the Ascension

    At the end of the last week, I sat on a picnic blanket in my backyard with my two babies reading the Ascension from their new Sparkhouse Story Bible. (I discovered that Sparkhouse is offering… More Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Ascension
  • Pandemic Prayers for Easter 6A

    When this all started, there were lots of reflections about God’s absence. It wasn’t my experience. I didn’t feel like God had given up or disappeared anymore than I felt like God had brought this pandemic upon the global community.… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Easter 6A
  • Pandemic Prayers for Easter 5A

    I join the circle of preachers who have expressed their familiarity with this text at the graveside. It’s the Gospel Lesson I always choose when the family doesn’t steer me in another direction, not because of the many mansions or… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Easter 5A