Monday, June 30, 2025

Prayers for Pentecost, 2025

Monday in 3 Pentecost, June 30, 2025

Inspire us, O God, with strategies of love because wishing to love and be loved without the practice of love disconnects us from you as the source of love; and let us never think that we have loved enough because love is always seeking new fulfillment in time.  Amen.

Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 29, 2025

God, we live in the dilemma of being called to love our enemies while we at the same time must protect the vulnerable from those great powerful enemies who exploit the weak; we observe your voluntary weakness in being seemingly neutral about what is happening in this world due to the maintenance of the conditions of true freedom; in your apparent outward weakness, please manifest a profound invisible strength to coax, lure, and persuade us about our freedom to choose goodness for ourselves and for each other.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Pentecost, June 28, 2025

God, who encompasses the greatest Realm, many smaller realms of greed, evil, and cruelty exploit the freedom to be evil within the Divine Realm; give us grace to uphold the goodness of great freedom to oppose and overcome evil in the ways that we can and have courage to resist and change the things that are in our power to do.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Pentecost, June 27, 2025

God, we are those who sometimes equate your apparent being as equivalent to the good fortune in our life which we call blessing; give us grace to accept your greatness which encompasses the events and probable outcomes which do not seem to be our contextual good luck but require our bowing to the genuine freedom which truly validates ethics as bearing the essence of valuation.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Pentecost, June 26, 2025

Christ, when you don't come to the language of people, still people find ways to project what greatness means for them in very human hyperbolic terms; thank you for affirming our privilege to confess greatness and to know that greatness is humbled and empty to forms of human apparency; give us grace not to idolize our forms of knowing divine apparency even while we confess our greatness due to our connection with you as All and in All.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Pentecost, June 25, 2025

Give us wisdom, O God, in the use of artificial intelligence as we seek to do no harm, heal long-standing diseases, feed and care for more people in ways that lifts the dignity of all.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Pentecost, June 24, 2025

God, let the metrics of our performance today not be in terms of popularity or measurement of worldly success, except the success in moving the arc of history closer to realized justice in more local situations.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Pentecost, June 23, 2025

God, you have been made portable and available within us as the divine Trojan Horse within us to break out and conquer our being from within as ministering messaging to help us sew our inner lives with our outer world in ways of peace and coherence; keep of mindful of your image upon us as our birthright.  Amen.

Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 22, 2025

Be in us O Christ, as we seek to be in You, as a place beyond the biases of small hearts and petty regionalism; and let us embrace being in You as a place of continual growth and the stretching of our hearts toward the unconditional love of God.  Amen.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Help us, O God, to embrace our identity in Christ such that we do not let lesser identities of gender, race, nationality, socio-economic, regional, or educational experience keep us from embracing the universal love of all who bear the divine image.  Amen.

Friday, June 20, 2025

God, without knowing precision about the causation of everything, we cannot avoid asking why things happen and what can we do to make things happen in better ways for more people; give us grace and wisdom to minister to the mystery of causation which resides within the troubled minds of people who need to be whispered to calm and peace and wholesomeness within community.  Amen.

Thursday, June 19, 2025 (Juneteenth in America)

God, the knowledge, promulgation, and practice of justice is delayed and late to arrive to many people who have been forced to live under oppression of people who deny the equal image of God upon all; today we celebrate the arrival and practice of justice whenever and wherever it becomes apparent, even as we ask for critical social knowledge about our blindness to our own oppressive tendencies.  Give us the zeal to be liberators as much as we desire to live lives of liberation for ourselves.  Amen.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

God of all, deliver us from setting criteria which falsely promote that you are not with and for all; give us heart enlarging experiences so that we might learn better the practice of the love known as justice which respects the dignity of all persons.  Amen.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

God, we ponder the mystery of the invisible interior which often results in acted out horrific events even while we know that love and justice can be acted out from the interior constitutions of people who have been whispered by peaceful self control; in as much as the interior life becomes an expression of "garbage in, garbage out," let us be those who create the input environments for good things to be fed to the hearts of people so that their interior constitutions can result in good outputs of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday, June 16, 2025

God, we often know ourselves in a world with the violent few trying to irreparably injure the chance of us having a future of peace and justice; give us courage to be the first responders to work at the healing of the violent results and to boldly proclaim the normalcy of you being a God of love, who calls us to live in the image of this love.  Amen.

First Sunday after Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, June 15, 2025

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you are dynamic connecting personhood at the center of life and you have come to our language to inspire us to work at best connections with each other in love and justice, and with you as an interior dynamism for mystical encounter.  Amen.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Arising Trinity, you are permission for language users to affirm words as vehicles for insights about how the invisible divine can be integrated into our understanding of humble living with great Mystery, while not being passive about love and justice.  Amen.

Friday, June 13, 2025

God, after using essences, energies, and emanations to speak about the reality of the Holy Trinity we humbly confess our failure to acknowledge the mystery of knowing you as the excessive confrontations of you as the All and in all, who can only be understood in piecemeal insights tailored to our capacity limitations.  Amen.

Thursday, June 12, 2025

God, who in our language tradition has been relationally known as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; even as our language experience in time cannot bear the fullness of synchronicity, we can know that we always impinged by an absolute past from which we have come, and we are continually re-comprised in the moving moments of time which instantiates our mutual experience of all in Holy Spirit connection, we give thanks for the particular emptying of the divine into Jesus who affirms our humble anthropomorphic efforts to explore the continual possibility of becoming divinely human.  Amen.

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

God, we give thanks for the appearance of Jesus Christ whom we confess as one who most aptly bears bi-lingual ability of the divine and the human; we honor the insight of the Holy Trinity which has arisen from the words of Jesus channeled through the sacred writings, and we cherish the elation of the insight of the Trinity, even as we humbly avoid the pretense of assuming omni-competent understanding of the same.  Amen.

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Holy Trinity, we embrace you as Mystery, as the Holy Negligible in our knowledge because so much remains unknown in its direct bearing upon our lives; we humbly accept the divine incarnation in our human life as a way for us to accept our human limitation even as including a path for us to know what is extra-human about the great Mystery that is always, already beyond our lives but surely must impinge upon us in mysterious ways.  Amen.

Monday, June 9, 2025

Eternal Word, forgive us for trying to separate words from knowing and understanding you and give us the humility to confess with the word, Mystery, the meaning of what we do not yet know, but let us not confess mystery when the obvious words and deeds of kindness are called for to answer the prayers which do not have to be offered because their answer is in our doing.  Amen.

Day of Pentecost, June 8, 2025

Holy Spirit, you are the awareness of knowing the sameness of Abundant Life within the vast diversity of people with different physical, psychological, cultural, and circumstantial constitutions; give us grace to seek the Abundant Life within life of unity which is known through living the greeting of the Risen Christ when he said, "Peace be with you."  Amen.

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