-
Join 1,347 other subscribers
-
Recent Posts
- A Child Laughs
- Advent
- Advent 2017
- Advent 2018
- Advent 2019
- Advent prayers
- Affirmation of Faith
- Aotearoa
- Argentina
- Ash Wednesday
- Australia
- Autumn
- Benediction
- Call to worship
- Canada
- Canada First Nations
- China
- Christmas
- coronavirus
- Earth Day
- earthquake
- Easter
- Eastertide
- Elections
- Epiphany
- From the Psalms to the Cloud
- Good Friday
- grief
- Gun tragedy
- gun violence
- Holy Communion
- hurricane
- Hymn
- immigration
- India
- July 4
- Lent
- Lent - 2015
- Lent - 2016
- Lent - 2020
- Lent 2017
- Lent 2019
- Lent 2021
- Luke liturgy
- Mark in Lent 2018
- Matthew
- Maundy Thursday
- Mexico
- music
- Natural disaster
- New Zealand
- O antiphons
- Palestine
- Palm Sunday
- parables
- Peace
- Pentecost
- poem
- poetry
- Prayer
- prayers of illumination
- psalm
- racism
- Republic of Georgia
- South Africa
- terrorism
- Thanksgiving
- Transfiguration
- Transgender
- Ukraine
- United States
- USA
- World AIDS Day
- World Communion Sunday
- Zimbabwe
Archives
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
Monthly Archives: August 2012
95 days of Pentecost — prayer for Korea as it faces typhoons
Thoughts and prayers go to Korea — North and South — in the wake of Typhoon Bolaven and anticipating what additional damage may come from Typhoon Tembin. I have turned to an earlier book Gifts of Many Cultures — Worship … Continue reading
Prayer for New Orleans
God who does not speak the language of whirlwind, earthquake or fire, and who names “laughter” a child born when none was forecast, never the destruction of children, call with your still small voice of hope and send the compassion … Continue reading
August 27, 2012 … 92 days since Pentecost and we are still listening to voices!
Barbara Van Ausdall is a gifted poet, musician and songwriter. A number of her resources are in the book Gifts in Open Hands including the song “Minga” which she wrote in Ecuador with its music based on the word minga … Continue reading
Collect for a Summer Still Life — Josephine and Koi
Just a small prayer for these late summer days in the Northern Hemisphere. God who wakes goldfish from pond mud and settles on her usual bench the ninety-eight year old woman without teeth who feeds them a hot dog bun, … Continue reading
August 23 — 88 days since Pentecost — Agape Meal
From England comes a liturgy for an Agape Meal … a meal for the community of love and justice. Graham Sparkes and Anthea Sully have shaped this feast in which the participants eat fruit and drink water. Clearly there could … Continue reading
August 20, 2012 — 85 Days! since Pentecost! Housewarmings
People move. When faith communities have the opportunity to bless a new home with prayer and food and welcome is it an occasion often remembered for years by young and older. Two resources follow. The first is a house blessing … Continue reading
Improv on Exodus 3
So often I add a piece of my own to this blog on one of the “off-days” … not-Mondays, not-Thursdays, in response to the breaking news, the news we cannot let break us. This morning, it’s scripture — “olds,” not … Continue reading
Eighty-one days of Pentecost — Zimbabwe Artists for the Environment
Several weeks ago Lance Muteyo offered an invitation to Artists for the Environment in Harare, Zimbabwe. After the event he sent some photos. I share them below and it seems appropriate to see them in the context of Allen Myrick’s … Continue reading
Seventy-eighth evening since Pentecost … Vesper Words
Today there are some resources from three continents for evening prayer. Choose one or more of these pieces for your own reflection before sleep or for your community of faith. Vespers Gathering Words from Lynne Frith, Aotearoa/New Zealand: One: In … Continue reading
Seventy-fourth day since Pentecost … they ate together
Our congregation at Madbury United Church of Christ just finished a seven week study based on the curriculum “Just Eating– Practicing our Faith at the Table” created by program partners — Advocate Health Care, Church World Service and Presbyterian Hunger … Continue reading
Gifts in Open Hands 