Wednesday in 4 Pentecost, June 23, 2021
Eternal Word who is God, how will my world and life be comprised and constituted with the language of my life today? How will I manifest myself in language to other language users in the words I speak, the words I write and the words which are scripted in my body language? Blessed God of Eternal Word, I did not know that I existed before language came to ruling my conscious life and coding all of the details of which I have not the capacity to focus upon at all. You are watching the "store" of the universe because my two eyes and limited focus tends to but very local seeing. Through Christ, O God, I salute you as the Chief Language User whose Words created, creates and will continue to create the pleroma of a diverse world. And I feel lost as but a shard in the kaleidoscope of endless signification whose ultimate signification I confess to be guided by Love. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Pentecost, June 22, 2021
O God, in what way will the world present itself today, to me and to all? Pleasure, pain, agony, ecstasy, hunger, abundance? Since I can only be where I am, my world awareness is very limited even though I know that all is connected in mysterious mutual inter-causal ways. Help me to trust my limited perceptual causal acts today as I seek to be directed by love, care and justice so that all of my acts will pay it forward for future good of this world. Amen.
Monday in 4 Pentecost, June 21, 2021
O God whose steadfast love never ceases with faithfulness to sustain all that is because you have taken an identity with all that is, we ask for grace to comprise our portion of our location within your divine presence, so that we might contribute to better future outcomes and stem evil by overcoming it with the good that you inspire us to do. Amen.
4 Pentecost, June 20, 2021
God, you have been introduced and portrayed as Father, by Scripture and by Jesus who was uniquely your Son. We thank you for the witness of fathering which has been done so well within human community that excellent fathering became a fitting personal designation for one who cares for creation even as we creatures are oft willing deniers of coming from divine pedigree because of behaviors which are a misrepresentation of the divine image upon us. We ask for good fathering within our lives today and we as children ask your aid in becoming worthy of the divine image upon our lives. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Pentecost, June 19, 2021
O God of the emancipated Hebrews from Egypt; you gave an early witness against the abhorrence of slavery and yet humanity has sinned against you and each other in the demeaning exploitation of owning people as property for economic advantage. Give us grace to confront the loathsomeness of this practice in our past and the courage to be honest about its lingering effects in the uneven practice of justice for all in our world. And deliver us from the blasphemy of wittingly or unwittingly associating the God of love with any practice of injustice. Amen.
Friday in 3 Pentecost, June 18, 2021
God of freedom, you freed your people from slavery and bondage and brought them onto the path of liberty; and again and again you are calling people to be free people who are in the work of freeing other people from every bond of oppression. Let the call of freedom continue to bear fruit in the lives of all people, not just by published law and constitution, but in the hearts and the actions of people who are committed to live together well in the highest values of love and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Pentecost, June 17, 2021
Eternal Word, you have created us as beings who use words as a way of knowing and in using words, we know that we partake of the entire universe of words which is founded by you, Eternal Word who was with God and was God from the beginning, even as we are drawn to confess you poetically, using words. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Pentecost, June 16, 2021
O Christ, on the troublesome waters; you calmed the storm and yet we thought that you should calm every storm for everyone all of the time for your calming actions to be universally true, and then we realized that the big troublesome water of death is what you calmed for everyone and so you renamed death as a door, an opening to another life. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Pentecost, June 15, 2021
Eternal Word of God, you creatively rewrite the entire world each moment as all that is, is the trace of yesterday becoming today, whose traces will evolve to tomorrow's borrowing of all that has gone before. We ask that from the traces of what has been that new creative advances will arise to inspire us personally and as a human community to know that love and justice is the best possible way for us to be human. Amen.
Monday in 3 Pentecost, June 14, 2021
Eternal Word of God, help us to sort out how we use the word of our lives. Help us to be very literal about justice and hunger and alleviating of pain. But help us to be poetic in our teaching of the inner language of the heart which pertain to love and faith but do not manifest themselves with obvious literalness. Forgive us the foolish use of language when we have gotten our body language wrong in the harm of others and bring us to follow the scripts of active love. Amen.
The Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 13, 2021
O God of renewal, are we like Paul deluded in seeing a new creation while our bodies decline and while our world declines because of our rampant consumption of resources and our poor stewardship of the gift of creation? Must we relegate hope for healing and repair to merely an interior feeling or can we be converted to creative discovery of a new creation of extended life for those who will live long after us. Let inward hope for the new creation become outward reality in the healing of the life of our planet. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Pentecost, June 12, 2021
O Eternal Word of God, you include all linguistic possibility and from your great Word essence we would draw today the words to guide our speaking, writing and our body language as we endeavor to be scripted by the best words of all in living lives of love and justice. Amen.
Friday in 2 Pentecost, June 11, 2021
O God who came to be called King, Ruler, Sovereign of the universe; such designation does not do you full justice since you are unlike any earthly ruler in that you do not tax or demand loyalty but you winsomely draw us to worship you through the incredible gift of having made all and given all to all that you have made. You are more than a king because your authority is the drawing power of love. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Pentecost, June 10, 2021
God of what will yet be, we want the continuous surpassing of the past in the now to be known as hope, the intuition of what is better even in face of what we are losing because of the entropy in time of things which cannot maintain a stable state. We surrender our false stabilities to you today as we look for the continual sustaining which is a remaking in the present while retaining identity traces of what has been. And we look forward to what will we yet be even as a fragment of what You will yet Be. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Pentecost, June 9, 2021
O God, we can only see through the lenses of our imperfect formation and we confess like Paul that we have not attained to completely successful love and so we only see in part. We ask that the part that we are seeing will always be consistent with wanting to do justice, love mercy and walking humbly before Divine Plenitude which includes all partial seeing in a great pan-optic Becoming. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Pentecost, June 8, 2021
O God of sight and light, help us to enhance our ability to see with qualitative seeing so that we can discern the sub-surface of the divine sublime within the seemingly ordinary, not to exaggerate life as more than it is, but to illuminate life with what it can yet be in surpassing ourselves in the many kinds of excellences which stand before us today. Amen.
Monday in 2 Pentecost, June 7, 2021
O God who gave us births of wonder before we learned to lose natural joy which adult pettiness, trauma, worry and the lure to artificial pleasures have robbed from us; help us to regain the wonder of our first birth and know the underneath profound memory of natural joy as our continuing rebirth into the wonder of life itself. Amen.
The Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 6, 2021
Creator God, we ask that your moving Spirit will be a continuous repairing of all of the broken results of misused freedom. Are we broken and unfixable or are we merely unfinished in cosmic trial and error of sentient life coming finally to learn the grace of living in harmony? We ask that our oft sense of brokenness could be seen in light of becoming a better and newer creation because we have learned to eschew our errors and run to your winsome perfection of forgiving grace which establishes kindness as best outcome of freedom. Amen.
Saturday in the Week after Trinity Sunday, June 5, 2021
O Heavenly Parent who asks us to do your will; your will is the expression of the correct use of freedom within the entire field of freedom where the results of the absolute past have left traces what what comprises our present life. In hope we seek the great possible good for our future so that when we make actual, hopeful goodness, and we can leave for the future, traces of goodness to influence even more future goodness. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, give us grace to propagate the good will in events of love and justice today. Amen.
Friday in the Week after Trinity Sunday, June 4, 2021
O One, who lures us toward the incarnation of love and justice in our speech and bodily language acts; Give us spiritual grace and power to contribute to the creative advance of love and justice in our world today, and let the horror of the unforgivable deeds in life motivate an avoidance of the same even while we build structures of overcoming evil with good. Amen.
Thursday in the Week after Trinity Sunday, June 3, 2021
God of Freedom, such freedom implies that you have choices, best choices and best practices for us to follow in this world of vast freedom. Your Son taught us to seek your best choices for our lives, the will of God and as we can seem lost amid all of the choices which need to be made, let us assess our choices by the standards of love and justice exemplified by the life our your Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
Wednesday in the Week after Trinity Sunday, June 2, 2021
Loving God, we tremble that the words of Jesus referred to an unforgivable sin against the Spirit when people called the spiritual healings done by Jesus evil. We know that the effects of evil ripple forever in the realm of freedom and continue to return through repression and future events of the same. We beseech you to forgive the ignorance of those who act with evil but only through enlightened wisdom which can bring repentance, amendment of life and reparations toward the main spiritual calling of humanity in the field of freedom, to overcome evil with good. Amen.
God of love and justice and hope, we know that to be loving and just requires courage because not everyone is ready for love and justice to be universally practiced. Forgive us when we limit love and justice to our familiar and favorite community of people and when we are blind or fearful about seeking justice for those beyond our circle. And let us never think that the work of love and justice is finished. Amen.
Monday, in the week of Trinity Sunday, May 31, 2021 (Memorial Day, 2021)
Gracious God, in our human failure to love, we have set ourselves against each other in myriads of ways thinking that war is the only solution to such disagreements among people. We have set standards for just wars and we have ask some to take oaths of protecting us to the point of their sacrificial deaths. And some have had to fulfill their calling to their own deaths on the behalf of those whom they protect. Bless the sacrifice of the fallen and may we still hold the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross as the only last needed sacrifice. Let the standard of being living sacrifices still inspire us to end war, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Gracious God, in our human failure to love, we have set ourselves against each other in myriads of ways thinking that war is the only solution to such disagreements among people. We have set standards for just wars and we have ask some to take oaths of protecting us to the point of their sacrificial deaths. And some have had to fulfill their calling to their own deaths on the behalf of those whom they protect. Bless the sacrifice of the fallen and may we still hold the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross as the only last needed sacrifice. Let the standard of being living sacrifices still inspire us to end war, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Trinity Sunday, May 30, 2021
O Godhead of ultimate creative ministry, sometimes we need your parental nurture when we are vulnerable children; sometimes we need the model of you being exemplary human being, and we ever need to know an internal glue of connection as time expands the occasions of becoming and we need to know that such expansions in time will not destroy us but only alter us toward the possibility of what is well toward a better Goodness when Freedom is made our best friend. Amen.
O Godhead of ultimate creative ministry, sometimes we need your parental nurture when we are vulnerable children; sometimes we need the model of you being exemplary human being, and we ever need to know an internal glue of connection as time expands the occasions of becoming and we need to know that such expansions in time will not destroy us but only alter us toward the possibility of what is well toward a better Goodness when Freedom is made our best friend. Amen.
Saturday in the week after Pentecost, May 29, 2021
Almighty God, we call forth your aid and assistance in three dynamic modes to apply to our lives, first parental tenderly care for the nurturing of our child aspect of personality which retains our unremembered first birth and manifests again through divine loving lure a conscious renewal of continuing natal spiritual refreshment. We need you as our adult sibling Jesus to set our minds with strategies for best appropriate living for each of our life contexts. And finally we need an aspect of ourselves which is a clean heart and renewed right spirit and so we ask for the Holy Spirit to be the deepest interior grounding of our lives to help us tolerate our lives and our conditions as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling with faith that we have that the fullness of Godhead is working in and for us. Amen.
Almighty God, we call forth your aid and assistance in three dynamic modes to apply to our lives, first parental tenderly care for the nurturing of our child aspect of personality which retains our unremembered first birth and manifests again through divine loving lure a conscious renewal of continuing natal spiritual refreshment. We need you as our adult sibling Jesus to set our minds with strategies for best appropriate living for each of our life contexts. And finally we need an aspect of ourselves which is a clean heart and renewed right spirit and so we ask for the Holy Spirit to be the deepest interior grounding of our lives to help us tolerate our lives and our conditions as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling with faith that we have that the fullness of Godhead is working in and for us. Amen.
Friday in the week after Pentecost, May 28, 2021
Holy Trinity, we may try to avoid you because we have known the weakness of those who represent parenting, childhood and disunifying spirit events. And where our language and inadequacy of human analogy fail, we cannot avoid You as the full Absolute Past from which we came, we cannot avoid using words in a manner whereby we accept them as a valid way of knowing you because of the eternal Word Christ, and we cannot avoid you as filling our environment with mysterious Presence such that we can experience each other with a mysterious conductivity which we honor as Holy Spirit. Since we cannot avoid you, O Trinity, we wish to be caught up in your Interior Fellowship of Love. Amen.
Holy Trinity, we may try to avoid you because we have known the weakness of those who represent parenting, childhood and disunifying spirit events. And where our language and inadequacy of human analogy fail, we cannot avoid You as the full Absolute Past from which we came, we cannot avoid using words in a manner whereby we accept them as a valid way of knowing you because of the eternal Word Christ, and we cannot avoid you as filling our environment with mysterious Presence such that we can experience each other with a mysterious conductivity which we honor as Holy Spirit. Since we cannot avoid you, O Trinity, we wish to be caught up in your Interior Fellowship of Love. Amen.
Thursday in the week after Pentecost, May 27, 2021
God, who has created the vast tapestry of life, too often we can only see the backside of Life's tapestry with the seeming chaotic tangle of threads in random disarray. We thank you that you give us moments to see the front side of Life's tapestry to see the purposeful beauty of how the harmony of differences gives us the aesthetic vision of Oneness and we confess that you have made all things well and that your Spirit is still weaving the tapestry of today for us. Amen.
God, who has created the vast tapestry of life, too often we can only see the backside of Life's tapestry with the seeming chaotic tangle of threads in random disarray. We thank you that you give us moments to see the front side of Life's tapestry to see the purposeful beauty of how the harmony of differences gives us the aesthetic vision of Oneness and we confess that you have made all things well and that your Spirit is still weaving the tapestry of today for us. Amen.
Wednesday in the week after Pentecost, May 26, 2021
O God, with whom all things are possible, we present to you today our impossibles, especially the great gap between the Holy Spirit as Unity and the experience in our local situations of the conflict of diversities compounded by individual egos at the center of individual perceptual universes. We live is a world of so many versions of reality, we wonder if the Spirit can be the magician to bring unity except in intermittent and sporadic serendipitous experience. Can unity prevail, O Holy Spirit, or must unity accept the freedom of the perpetual clash of diverse beings? Holy Spirit, weaver of the diverse fabrics of the Quilt of Time, can the aesthetic whole Quilt be perceived with a beauty which blends the ugly and painful events into a meaningful reconciled whole? And does ultimate reconciliation of all minimize the pain and suffering in the particular event? And can anyone, minimize the pain of other people for them even if one comes to reconciliation about one's own pain? Holy Spirit of the impossible and of contradictions, your continued becoming what has been is also an integration of all that has been, and in faith we trust your integration of all that has been. Amen.
O God, with whom all things are possible, we present to you today our impossibles, especially the great gap between the Holy Spirit as Unity and the experience in our local situations of the conflict of diversities compounded by individual egos at the center of individual perceptual universes. We live is a world of so many versions of reality, we wonder if the Spirit can be the magician to bring unity except in intermittent and sporadic serendipitous experience. Can unity prevail, O Holy Spirit, or must unity accept the freedom of the perpetual clash of diverse beings? Holy Spirit, weaver of the diverse fabrics of the Quilt of Time, can the aesthetic whole Quilt be perceived with a beauty which blends the ugly and painful events into a meaningful reconciled whole? And does ultimate reconciliation of all minimize the pain and suffering in the particular event? And can anyone, minimize the pain of other people for them even if one comes to reconciliation about one's own pain? Holy Spirit of the impossible and of contradictions, your continued becoming what has been is also an integration of all that has been, and in faith we trust your integration of all that has been. Amen.
Tuesday in the week after Pentecost, May 25, 2021
Holy Spirit, from you we experience the esprit de corps of the entire created order. In you we can recognize that we are a community of interrelated and connected beings and to know you is to learn not just that we are connected but to learn in wisdom how we best can live our connectedness with all things, especially with God and all people on whom the image of Christ can be found. Amen.
Holy Spirit, from you we experience the esprit de corps of the entire created order. In you we can recognize that we are a community of interrelated and connected beings and to know you is to learn not just that we are connected but to learn in wisdom how we best can live our connectedness with all things, especially with God and all people on whom the image of Christ can be found. Amen.
Monday in the week after Pentecost, May 24, 2021
Holy Spirit of God, we applaud you for the sameness of things over time even as we recognize your inspiration for the differences over time. In you we retain all of the traces of an absolute past even as in you make the past the womb for the birth of the new moments of what will be different from what has happened before. And we confess today that where there is life there is Spirit and we want to dress you O Spirit with the finest presentation of love and justice today. Amen.
Holy Spirit of God, we applaud you for the sameness of things over time even as we recognize your inspiration for the differences over time. In you we retain all of the traces of an absolute past even as in you make the past the womb for the birth of the new moments of what will be different from what has happened before. And we confess today that where there is life there is Spirit and we want to dress you O Spirit with the finest presentation of love and justice today. Amen.
The Day of Pentecost, May 23, 2021
Come Holy Spirit, and comprise within us the script of how we should be and live; but don't stop with letting us know how we should live, empower us with the gifts to do what we need to do and when we need to do what is right and we shall credit you for what is good about us in what we do and say. You are our divine connection with everything now, everything past and everything future and let this divine connection be known as love today. Amen.
Come Holy Spirit, and comprise within us the script of how we should be and live; but don't stop with letting us know how we should live, empower us with the gifts to do what we need to do and when we need to do what is right and we shall credit you for what is good about us in what we do and say. You are our divine connection with everything now, everything past and everything future and let this divine connection be known as love today. Amen.
