Starter Prayer: All praise be Yours, my God, through Brother Fire, Through whom You brighten up the night. How beautiful he is, how gay! Full of power and strength. —ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Focus Phrase: Light of Life Scripture Reading: John 8:12 Optional Read-along: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire pp. 45-50a (Chapter Two: Brother Fire, […]

  Happy Sunday, Fellow Travelers: Today we practice receiving God’s blessing through the power of the wind. Ask nothing of yourself today except to love God, love yourself and love your neighbor. Know that even when you are not producing, not hustling, not even trying to be good, God is always on your side– not […]

Starter Prayer: Creator God who speaks peace and calls us to action, take me on a new prayer adventure. Focus Phrase: Holy Listening Scripture Reading: Isaiah 42:5 Optional Read-along: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire pp. 37b-42a (Chapter One: Brother Wind, Section: Lectio Divina With the Wind and More Quotations for Prayer.) Spiritual Direction: Lectio Divina […]

Starter Prayer: Lord God of the storm and the whirlwind: I am more apt to come to you in sorrow asking for relief rather than seeking to understand what lessons the storm might hold. Teach me to embrace the gifts hidden in suffering rather than trying to banish my pain. Amen (Prayer adapted from Christine […]

Starter Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, teach me how to surrender my life to the movements of the Holy Spirit; and give me a heart of freedom, spontaneity and love, where I can receive and grow the seeds of new life. Amen Focus Phrase: Carried by the Wind Scripture Reading: John 3:1-8 Optional Read-along: Water, Wind, […]

Starter Prayer: Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me. Amen Focus Phrase: Fresh Inspiration Scripture Reading: Acts 2:1-2; Psalm 104 Optional Read-along: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire pp. 23b-28 (Chapter One: Brother Wind, Section: Holy Inspiration.) Spiritual Direction: We’re in a heat wave here in northern Colorado. I woke up at 3am, needing […]

Starter Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, help me become in touch with your breath of life within me. Focus Word: Breathe Scripture Reading: Genesis 2:4-6; Psalm 104:29-30; Job 12:10. Optional Read-along: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire pp. 19b-23a (Chapter One: Brother Wind, Section: Wind and Creation.) Spiritual Direction: Yesterday we celebrated the power of wind in […]

  Starter Prayer: All praise be Yours, my God, through Brothers Wind and Air. And fair and stormy, all the weather’s moods, by which You cherish all that You have made. Amen –St. Francis of Assisi Focus Phrase: Wind Generates Life Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:1-2 and Psalm 104: God the Creator and Provider;  Optional Read-along: […]

Happy Sunday, Fellow Travelers: Today we practice receiving Christ’s Peace through water, air, earth and starfire. Ask nothing of yourself today except to love God, love yourself and love your neighbor. Know that even when you are not producing, not hustling, not even trying to be good, God is always on your side– not only […]

Starter Prayer: Holy God, if life is an adventure in re-learning to pray, I’m all in. Show me great and wonderful things I do not know. Amen Focus Word: Imagination Scripture Reading: Psalm 96; Jeremiah 33:3 Optional Read-along: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire pp. 10b-13 (Introduction section: Cultivating our Relationship to Nature.) Spiritual Direction: Nature […]