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TagPrayer: Teach us Your Ways…
Contributed by Bill Matson
Creating God, with an engaging spirit you never fail to meet us where we are, ever faithful while calling us into each tomorrow with the excitement and adventure of new possibilities. As we greet this new day, facing realities we find overwhelming, let us ..
Prayer: God of Land and Sea…
Contributed by Beth Johnson
God of land and sea, of moon and sun—we are never without your presence. You move in and through us always and everywhere. You are as near as our breath, as close as our heartbeat. We see you in the eyes of all we meet. We hear you in the coo of a dove. We ..
Pastoral Prayer for the Gulf Oil Spill
By Jeanyne Slettom
“When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51).
Loving God,
We seek clarity in all the dimensions of our lives–our relationships, our work, our leisure.
Like Jesus, who set his face toward Jerusalem in the ce..
BARE ATTENTION
“You’re snowballing,” she says in a tone of compassionate caution. “Yes, I know,” I say. It has been an intense day, an intense week, an intense month. There is too much to do, and my stores of energy, time, and focus do not feel up to the task of meeting the various demands that press in on me—mu..
ADVENTUROUS SPIRITUALITY IN REAL LIFE
By Bruce G. Epperly
One of my spiritual teachers Gerald May saw the heart of spirituality as involving the following practices: pausing, noticing, opening, yielding and stretching, and responding. Such practices are not intended to be esoteric or monastic, but can be embodied in our daily live..