A prayer for growth: Cultivating God, I notice you in the strangest places– early blooms, a crowded classroom,silence where I seek familiarity memories of loss and hope for growth. God, make me like a seed that when pushed into the dark, my response is to slough off all you cannot use, and grow. Amen Katie Cassady, Unexpected […]
A prayer to One who fulfills promises: Loving God I ask for the eyes to seethe details you have placed before me, for the wisdom to receive each as gift; and for the heart to return my praise unabashedly to You, the gift-giver. Amen Katie Cassady, Unexpected Honey
I was thinking about Epiphany on Friday morning, cautiously driving along icy roads, and it hit me. Not any major insight, but another car. It shook me out of my head and into the cold morning air to assess damages and exchange insurance information and quiet frightened children. In a way, this unexpected interruption circumnavigated the dread of
Gracious God, you created this world and every part of it out of love and I am straining to see with the eyes of love with which you gaze. My words feel redundant, stale, used up, and yet I hear you coaxing,inviting me to tell you about the stirrings of my heart. All that is
(To be used at a shower, or as a stand alone blessing ritual). In You, O God rests our hope for answered prayers. In You Elizabeth, Mary, Rachel and Hannah entrusted the futures of their families, and You answered them— In ’round about, unforeseen, surprising and long-awaited, comings. Blessed be the longing that brought ___
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