I came across an interesting prayer while reading this afternoon: it’s offered here in  a slightly edited variation on a closing prayer that is used at the de-consecration of a building (church, etc.) that is either to be razed, or to stop being a sacred space and changing its purpose to secular use. In the [...]

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Scribe on July 12th, 2011

Jesus, our Peace: If there is any doubt in us, you do not love us any less. We wish to find life in your words: “Whoever gives their life for love of me, the risen Lord, will find it.” – Amen When you imagine what the words in the prayer mean by “gives their life,” [...]

Continue reading about When I Doubt Myself I Do Not Doubt You – a prayer

As you settle your thoughts and enter into your time of prayer, focus, meditation (whatever you wish to name it) here is a small entr’acte to bring you into the quietness of your sitting time: What can I offer to the Lord for the goodness he has shown? I will lift up the cup of [...]

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Scribe on May 20th, 2010

Today, think on this simple Call to Prayer as a meditation on what it is in our lives that is good, that blesses us, that which  blesses others through us. Even on the days that you may think that your life is on the Down side of the roller coaster, what is there that is [...]

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Scribe on December 14th, 2009

O God, Today I am afraid.

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