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 that has been at the center of my prayers with each and every headline. TheContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday”
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13B
We have moved into our home and there is now work being done to install new heaters in our very old building. The wall of the garden behind our home was a fortification built to protect the city from Napoleon. People hid from US bombs in the cellar that is now our storage in theContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13B”
Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B
I loved the movie. I did. I still do but I always found this one repeated line creepy. It’s the same line that I hear repeated in the Gospel Lesson forcing us to wonder how any one of us will answer that question, “What should I ask for?” It is a woman that asks thisContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B”
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 Prayers for Epiphany 4
Healings just feel like a weird thing to explore right now. Many of us are refreshing our browsers wondering when we can get in line to get the vaccine. Or we are eagerly seeking out that first dose for a loved one. We are not amazed, but we are asking each other, “What is this?”Continue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 4”
Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 3
I am really excited when poetry takes the national stage. I was surprised when it happened in the beginning of the pandemic. Major news outlets started sharing poems chosen by their editors to speak this moment. Poetry became popular while we have been home in our pajamas. It happens every four years — or nearlyContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 3”
Pandemic Prayers for Advent 3
I hope you already found the beautiful prayers gathered by RevGalBlogPals in their weekly Worship Words. I am honored to contribute to this collection of wonderful prayers and appreciate the nudge that to remember that those in the Southern Hemisphere welcome this celebrations with an entirely different set of metaphors. I wanted to use theContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Advent 3”
Pandemic Prayers for Proper 28
As in the days before ballots were being counted, music is where my heart is led. I haven’t yet turned on the Christmas carols but I’m close. I’m really close.
Pandemic Prayers for Proper 27
As I continue to try to write these prayers ahead of the Lectionary cycle, I’m writing these prayers when early voting is still happening in the state of Texas among others. I’ve cast my ballot but I do not know what will happen. I have my fears. I know I’m not alone in those fearsContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Proper 27”
Cooking with Elsa 