Prayer

Slowing the Pace with this Advent Devotional Idea

The season of Advent began yesterday and so Christians have entered into the traditional season of expectation and waiting for the coming of Jesus!  It will be for many “the most wonderful time of the year;” however, as you know, it can be a season that brings great anxiety, pressure, and even depression. Last year, [...]

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A Blessing from Jean Vanier: The Experience Powerlessness

A “blessing” I’d like spoken to me each day: May all your expectations be frustrated. May all your plans be thwarted. May all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God the Father, the Son, and the [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Suffering

Gracious God, all around me people are suffering. When I turn away from my own problems, I feel sorrow for the problems of others. Through the news, the media, and my conversations, I am daily confronted with the pain and suffering of so many innocent people in my life and in the world. Suffering seems [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Bless the Children

Gracious God, in the vulnerability of a child, we recognize our own fragility. In their tender innocence, we are reminded that life is meant to be lived with curious and joyful abandon. Help us, who are no longer children, to retain the freshness of childhood and to be the protectors and mentors of those whose [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Winter Prayer

Gracious God, the leaves have fallen, the air has become cold, and bare trees now seem to open the sky. Remind me that this is a time to slow down in order to be attentive to the stark stillness winter brings. Help me breathe deeply the frigid air and know myself to be held in [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Thanksgiving

Gracious God, these days of special remembrance can so easily pass without my being attentive to the reasons behind them. Open my eyes and heart to the many graces and blessings that blanket my life with joy. Help my soul awaken with the gratitude that will make me attentive and expectant for the imprint of [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Computer Time

For all my cyber-savvy(!) friends and readers, who’ll spend much of your week behind a computer screen … Gracious God, even in the wondrous tangle of wires and connections, you make yourself known. May my computer be more than a machine of information and become an altar on which I am able to offer my [...]

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Prayer for the Week: May Barriers Crumble

I thought this prayer, from The Book of Common Prayer, was an appropriate one for this coming week: Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart (and especially the hearts of the people of this land), that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; [...]

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