prayers
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Backpack Blessings in Coronatide
In my first attempt at brainstorming for worship planning in the pandemic, I wondered how many blessings there might be as the school year begins. I wondered if there will not only be the usual backpack blessings but also blessings… Continue reading
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Stewardship in Coronatide
I shared a few days ago some worship brainstorming for the season ahead and it got me thinking about the other big thing that often happens in the fall season in our churches: the pledge drive. Most churches still tend… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 14
This gorgeous reflection on 1 Kings 19:9-18 by Richard W. Swanson has got me thinking about silence. Silence feels all consuming right now. There is so much of it. Or, at least, there is for me. Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Cooking with Elsa 