Quiet Proclamation
When we are tempted to add our noise to the shouting of opinions and doctrines, Teach us, O Christ, the art of quiet proclamation. When we face the crashing [...]
Opening
In every fragment of time, O God, You work Your acts of grace. In every grain of earth, O Christ, You bring Your grace to life. In every breath of [...]
Only Praise
Because of your grace and beauty, your compassion and truth, we offer you our tongues, O God, as instruments of praise. In joy and celebration, in grief and despair, [...]
New Eyes
There is so much we miss as we look through our eyes trained to see only the familiar the expected the safe. Thank you, God, that you don't see [...]
Magnificat
We praise you, Lord, and our spirits rejoice in you – our Saviour; For you take notice of the unnoticeable, and transform them into the blessed; You are strong [...]
Love So Easy And So Hard
Can it be that easy, Jesus? Can it be that hard? That what You want for us is just to love and be loved? Is it possible that even [...]
Light And Salt
It’s much easier, Jesus, to point fingers and speak with horror about the darkness in our world, than to live ablaze with light, revealing the truth of systems and situations, [...]
Just Grace
Gracious God, today, as everyday, we pray for grace, but today, we ask a little more - for a grace that is costly, for a grace that is just, and [...]
Inappropriate Grace
In our “nothing for nothing” world, grace makes little sense, Jesus; We can’t believe that you would welcome us, uplift us and restore us so freely; and so we [...]
In Praise Of Being Noticed
We all like to be noticed, O God, from our earliest cries of “look at me!” to the cautious search for acknowledgement from someone special; from the longing for a [...]