Faith

Faith

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Trudging toward Triduum

By Katie Cassady / April 9, 2017 / Comments Off on Trudging toward Triduum

A prayer for approaching Triduum: This is where it seems to hinge, my resolve is weak. The season of sparsity has drug on. The voices in my head and the voices of the past, quiver,’Why have you abandoned me?’ Feelings of loneliness and doubt linger reminders of brokenness, abound. Trudging toward Triduum I join the […]

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Epiphanies

By Katie Cassady / January 7, 2017 / Comments Off on Epiphanies

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 […]

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Tired Prayer

By Katie Cassady / November 20, 2016 / Comments Off on Tired Prayer

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 […]

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Blessing Over an Expectant Mom

By Katie Cassady / October 9, 2016 / Comments Off on Blessing Over an Expectant Mom

(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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