Spirit of Life, Source of Love, you who know our struggles and failures as well as we know them ourselves, be with us as we enter into this time of reflection. Give us the courage to travel through a moral inventory of our lives, to notice the places where we have missed opportunities to live our...
We are the ones who must comfort the sick and lift up the poor. We are the ones who must challenge traditions to bring about justice. Strengthen our resolve, we pray, to live out our faith as doers of good works.
God, teach us to consider also how others experience the world. To understand how my reality and their reality are different and yet they share qualities of the same core desire. ...
Let us offer our blessing to the lay leaders who invest their time and care in the well-being of this congregation.
We speak the deepest prayers of our hearts in different ways, knowing that what it means for them to be answered will look and feel different for each of us.
Loving Creator, beyond our understanding yet closer than our breath, ...
A prayer invoking our courage to engage in the spiritual practice of risk for justice, with lovingcare, in and for the beloved community.
Our hearts commend us to the sacrificial work of restoration and refuge: to find what is lost and heal what is broken and be help and healing to the hurting.
The kingdom of heaven is like the Pride Parade, where all are welcome and love wins.
Mother Earth, in gratitude and humility, we ask that you hold us and sustain us, as we strive to live in connection with you and all life.
As a community, may we feel our strength together and use it for good as best we can.
Spirit of Love, you find the gentle words to speak life into me and hold me when all else around me and in me feels broken.
The journeys of our lives are never fully charted. There come to each of us deserts to cross—barren stretches—where the green edge on the horizon may be our destination, or an oasis on our way, or a mirage that beckons only to leave us lost. ...
May I move gently through this cloudy, murky, gray day. ...
