Prayers
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
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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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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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(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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