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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 to [...]

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Images from Haiti

You know how it goes by now – with our 24 hour “news” cycle, a tragedy like the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 12 hits the airwaves with sketchy details at first, then the truth begins to settle in, then the commentary runs ad nauseam.  And through it all, the pictures are shown, the video [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 thanks [...]

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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; that [...]

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A Parent’s Prayer

For all of you who have children, or who care for children, the The Book of Common Prayer offers this prayer.  It has become something I pray for my four children regularly.
God our Father, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world.  Show them that your ways give more life than [...]

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