This prayer was written for this morning’s service, but because of a gaff, I did not get to speak it aloud. So I place it here. Let the spirit of meditation, of prayer, of reflection, of connection to that yearning inside you for something larger than yourself be your company, moving you to sound or …
this prayer was given at Community Church of New York I invite you to find a posture of dignity that allows you to receive, to soften, to be ready for possibility, insight, grief, joy to find their shape within you. That and more, or less, at this time of stillness that some calm meditation, some call prayer. We are living …
Yesterday or the day before I posted on my Facebook page a photo of daffodils shooting above ground in my yard, noting my concern that it was only the end of January and this was too early and not a good sign (climate crisis). Others noted similar happenings in the soil where they were. Some …
One thing I was really looking forward to the most on this trip was to visit Joe Minter’s folk art installation in Birmingham, which is his home, which is his life, which has been his life for decades. He has been making art ~ this evolving art of place and space ~ since the early …
How might we surrender to our place in the vast cosmos, the strange mix that does not reveal the depths and breadths of its true nature to mere mortals such as we are, yet begs us choose to see angels and generosity, beloveds in the midst of the unknown, and life singing its song of …
This prayer was inspired by the prayer at the end of this blogpost by Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber.
As all kinds of folx move into re-opening space that was closed during the pandemic, it can help to bring intentionality, and even ritual, to this process. We have all been exposed to trauma in the form of a global pandemic. This trauma has different manifestations depending on one’s social location and context, but no …
October 28, 2018 Spirit of Life and Love, Possibility of Mercy and Peace, Impulse towards Compassion, Yearning for Comfort in times of Fear, our hearts echo these words from the poet Warsan Shire: We lament the very fact of this lamentation. A lamentation making of our eyes a fountain of tears to weep for the …
November 19, 2017 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ A refrain that has been in my mind, over and over. Safety. And wholeness. And a deep yearning for it. I have finally noticed it this past week, but really it has been insisting itself into most of my sermons these past few months, perhaps …
Not long before I left Western Massachusetts last summer, I walked along the Mill River in an area I hadn’t visited for several years. Well, maybe even more than several, truth be told. I was so lucky because I stumbled upon an installation of gratitude prayer flags. Scores of them. Hundreds of them. Hanging …