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How to grow a prayer life
We have been transplanted into a new and enduring reality. We know now that this new situation will last longer than any of us imagined at the beginning. If we are not to be choked up by the troubles or cares of the world, we need to take care of the soil of our souls, and the loam of our lives, if we are to continue as good mediums for God’s Word. Continue reading
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Tagged book of common prayer, Daily Office, Isaiah 55:1-13, parable of the sower, prayer
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Chasing clouds
Not as children naming
animals in a fluffy sky; nor yet
storm chasers, seeking secrets
funnelled from heaven to earth; more
refugees from understanding,
lost in bewilderment, following
clouds across the wilderness
desert dry-mouthed – Continue reading
Posted in current events, Holy Days, lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged coronavirus, Daily Office, Easter Vigil, Exodus 13:20-22, pandemic, Psalm 97:1-5
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Wednesday Morning Prayer
Reposted from the Episcopal Cafe. The recommended Canticle for use after the first testament reading at Morning Prayer on a Wednesday is Surge, illuminare: Rise and shine. On a day like any other buses ran, some on time buskers sang, … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, prayer
Tagged Daily Office, Isaiah 60:1, morning prayer, Wednesday canticles
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Morning prayer
A rabbit, startled by the
gas-powered scythe scuttered,
white tail exposed,
exiting garden right. Continue reading
Why pray
How can we turn away, when love pursues us
with such glorious desire? Continue reading
Psalmbird
At last week’s Summer Music Camp, we learned all about David the songwriter (the one from the Bible, as we had constantly to disambiguate). We learned to sing Psalm 23 in childlike form. We listened to Kiri te Kanawa singing … Continue reading
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Tagged Church of the Epiphany, Daily Office, King David, Psalm 55, Psalm 61, Summer Music Camp
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“Do not be overcome by evil”
… “but overcome evil with good.” Continue reading
Posted in current events, lectionary reflection, meditation, poetry, prayer
Tagged Daily Office, Nice, Romans 12:9-21, terrorism
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Morning Prayer for July 7, 2016: Psalm 18, Part I
Last time, I came back cold; colder than any living thing was meant to feel. Your burning coals, flung from your flaming tongue, extinguished themselves against the skin of my unclaimed body, and I didn’t feel a thing, except cold; … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged Daily Office, Psalm 18:1-20, Song of Solomon 8:7
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Today or tomorrow
Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such & such a town and spend a year there, doing business & making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Office, James 4, new year resolutions, New Year's Eve, Tamir Rice
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