Category Archives: Prayer
As One Friend to Another
Speak to God as one friend speaks to another. –Annotation 54, The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola As one friend to another, I gotta say, I love that you call me your friend and tell me I abide in … Continue reading
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Holy and Loving One, you have brought us into a good land– a land of lakes and hills, forests, streams and meadows, a land of orchards full of peaches, pears, cherries and apples–so many varieties of apples! fields full … Continue reading
Save Us
Yesterday, we returned home from camping in the Kootenays.Today, I’m baking bread, and Fred is vacuuming out the car.I wish he could vacuum up the smoke and everyone were safe at home. One hundred and four wildfires are actively … Continue reading
As If I Wasn’t Dying Inside
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.–Psalm 22:14 (NIV) Jesus, on the cross, poured out like water bones out of joint heart turned to wax, … Continue reading
With Christ, I Die
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.— Colossians 3:3 In the silence, I close my eyes and die. I release all I love, all I desire, all I wanted to do, all I wished to become, all that is not resolved. My … Continue reading
Another Disguise
God comes to you disguised as your life. –Paula D’Arcy Dust to dust is not nothing to nothing as if dust were not precious, as if returning to dust meant our lives didn’t matter, as if we could disappear without a trace, as if God could … Continue reading
