Starter Prayer: Gracious God, grow my awareness of your constant movements in my life. Teach me new ways of living as one connected to you and all that is good. Amen. Focus Word: Ripple Effect Hannah Garrity’s piece “Prevenient” is about the expansive effect of God’s grace. (Don’t ask me what “prevenient” means; I’m not […]

Starter Prayer: Gracious God, rescue us from the dangers on the wrong roads of life. Give us the faith to walk the path of righteous, for your sake and ours. And by all means! Save us from the habit of hustling for our worth. Amen Focus Word: Grace Today we read one of the most […]

Starter Prayer: God Who is Light, teach me to know your love and to experience the Light of Life, wave upon wave. Focus Phrase: Light Wave From the painter, Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity: For God so loves, that light light, God keeps traveling to reach us with that redeeming love. The image in her painting […]

Starter Prayer: God of poetic promises, clear up the misunderstandings we harbor in our religious minds. Free us to accept the true and inclusive meaning of your promise of eternal life, for ourselves and the world you love. Focus Phrase: Poetry of Promise Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity’s story about John 3:16 and her mother’s death […]

Starter Prayer: Loving God, thank you for calling us into your redeeming light. Help us to trust this love enough to open the drapes of our souls and allow the exposure. Amen (Adapted from Rev. T. Denise Anderson) Focus Phrase: Trust the Love I’m captured by this section of “Hold,” the poem by Rev. Sarah […]

Starter Prayer: Loving God, thank you for calling us into your redeeming light. Help us to trust this love enough to open the drapes of our souls and allow the exposure. Amen. (Adapted from Rev. T. Denise Anderson) Focus Phrase: Come to the Light But those who do what is true come to the light, […]

Starter Prayer: God of my life, teach me how to think and live as one who has been raised with Christ. Help me recognize the hidden glory that is my True Self. Focus Phrase: Negative Space Since you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is– seated at the […]

Starter Prayer: God of hidden wisdom, show me something new, and teach me something wonderful. I want to understand your power in the way of the cross. Focus Phrase: Hidden Wisdom The cross of Christ means different things to different people. Church by church, the meaning is taught differently. And people think differently. We change […]

Starter Prayer: Liberating God, again and again our brains tell us we are in danger when in fact you are trying to save people. Help us let go of our questions about your methods and join you in the work. Focus Phrase: Overturn Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity has a loose connection to one of the […]

Starter Prayer: Liberating God, again and again our brains tell us we are in danger when in fact you are saving people. Help us let go of our questions about your methods and join you in the work. Focus Phrase: The urge to question In today’s reflection, Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity writes: Again and again, […]