Watching
Your reign is always coming, Jesus, slipping into our lives quietly like a thief, and subverting our comfortable self-interest; and, even though we know we should be watching we miss [...]
Waiting And Watching
You call me to wait on You, Lord, but I get tired of waiting. Your answers to my prayers, Your call for me to serve You, the promise of Your [...]
Using Our Wealth
God of extravagant and inappropriate grace, we thank you for the wealth we enjoy, and for all the opportunities we have to share it. Where nations buckle under the [...]
Unlikely Companions
It was scandalous then, Jesus: your inappropriate choice of associations, your insistence on being with those who were least likely to be friends of God. It’s scandalous now, Jesus! We [...]
Truly Blessed
You have blessed us, O God, with your Word, Creative and life-giving, Spoken through the ages, In Christ, made flesh, In our hearts known as truth; We praise you, [...]
True Whole-iness
I sometimes wonder how it makes you feel, God, when we speak of you in the hushed tones of fear, when we think of holiness as rigid rule-keeping, and harsh [...]
True Fasting
Keep us, O God, from dry, brittle religion, from rigid laws and cold judgements, from personal piety and aloof disinterest in the well-being of others. Teach us the way of [...]
Tough Transformation
It's not that we don't want to change, God, it's just that change is really hard; the challenges of the world threaten to overwhelm us, the struggles of living each [...]
To Worship And to Follow
We follow you, Jesus, today as we worship; In words of love and devotion sung and spoken, In service and kindness, in shared life and sacred meal. And all [...]
Through Our Tears
It’s not wrong to ask where you are, God, when innocent children go hungry, or are abducted as sexual slaves or die of curable diseases, or are forced to fight [...]