Prayers for Easter, 2026

Saturday in 7 Easter, May 23, 2026

Resurrection and Life Person, make us resurrection and life people as we know our inwardness to be the evidence of our continuity with the continuous befores and afters of life and of the hope of our afterness after afterness; thank you for this Easter season of hope even as we seem to be dancing on the death of ancient beforeness.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 22, 2026

Holy Sophia, Spirit of God, who is wise mothering and nurturing hope for humanity; give us your nurturing wisdom to integrate the new times of our lives and the new people into our orbs so as to ever be growing as a family of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 21, 2026

We seek you O Spirit because the differences of life seem so much more prominent than the unity of being within the Great Divine Container; differences in time, place, and structure can make us believe that the forces of disintegration are greater than the magnet of unity to hold us into a harmony of peaceful co-existence in love and justice.  Give the continual inclination toward the Unity of Spirit.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 20, 2026

Wind and Breath of Unseen, Invisible, but sustaining life with obvious seen and felt effects; we ascribe to you O Wisdom Spirit, personality because having language means that we cannot avoid living in a personal universe of connected beings within your Great Being, itself.  Give us the wisdom of being personal as community participant in love and justice and rid us the alienation of thinking we are island individuals.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 19, 2026

Holy Spirit, you are great Magnet within all which hold us together in the Great Expanding Container of All; and because we have no choice but to be held together, help us to have wisdom to know how to be best held together with the results of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 18, 2026

Holy Spirit, we assume you as the omnipresence Entity which allows us to have mutual experience of each other since we are not isolated islands with vacuous emptiness; give us grace to work on inherent connection with each other as it is best known in love and justice.  Amen.

Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2026

Through your Ascension O Christ, we acknowledge another mode of your presence as the particular intense divine presence in Jesus was given for us to eventually know Christ as all and in all.  Give us eyes to see God's anointed presence everywhere.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Easter, May 16, 2026

Give us grace O God, to know you as our inner Parent who helps us through divine Word therapy to organize our inner linguistic lives so as to be able to bring a harmonic order to the oft chaotic settings of our lives; enlighten us with strategies of love and justice to instantiate the desired harmonies for living.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Easter, May 15, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, help us to live well from our inwardly constituted lives through the imprint of our language such that we will launder our words through intercessory prayer following the example of Jesus who prayed for this world.  Amen.

Ascension Day, May 14, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, you are gone from visible status to the invisible inner world with a different kind of accessibility to all who to live according to the divine image upon them as children of God; may we ride you as an elevator to the higher values of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 13, 2026

God who is best known in the obvious closeness of our inner space; Jesus Christ arose in our history to give us an example of how to live with the vastness of the divine of our inner space so as to know you there as a nurturing parent and not as the chaos of being overwhelmed by vastness.  Help us to organize through wise naming our interior experience as divine parenting.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 12, 2026

Emmanuel, God with us, thank you for being in the complete intercessory role with us among the best and the worst of what the field of freedom generates in actually human conditions; forgive us for wanting you to be but an intervener on our behalf rather than as a support for living with what actually may happen in the freedom which is the crux of moral integrity.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 11, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, you showed us the perfect use of language through your intercessory prayer for all humanity; your body language prayers were the perfect oblations to give us a model for living our worded lives.  Amen.

Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 10, 2026

We are your offspring, O Father-Mother, Parent God, the fullness of the plenitude from which we have derived; your household is the milieu in which we live and move and have our being and we ask for grace to be good steward children of your household, especially in caring for each other.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 9, 2026

Eternal Word, out of the vast inner and omni-private space of humanity words have brought into being through naming the world as we know it; give us grace not to worship the objects of the outer world but to use the structuration facility of inward language to work out the harmony of love and justice in our various environments.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 8, 2026

Holy Spirit Advocate, teach us to be advocates for those who are not adequately befriended in this world through favorable circumstances or persons of nurture; give us the grace to raise the level of justice for all to know the dignity of being made in the divine image.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 7, 2026

Eternal Parent, send your befriending Spirit to Advocate on behalf of those who are feeling like abandoned orphans in a world and do internal comforting of the seeming forsaken even while you inspire nurturing people to fulfill the befriending which is needed to make this world seem kinder.  Amen.

 Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 6, 2026

Eternal Word, everything that has come to be known has been processed by the mystery of language making the interior private into a constituting force in our world; give us grace to get our inward language engine tuned toward what love and justice can accomplish in our outer world.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 5, 2026

Eternal Father, Parent God, you sent Jesus into a world of people who lived as though they were orphans; give us us wisdom to follow Jesus as your unique Son to bring us out of our sense of orphanhood and into knowing the DNA of the image of God upon our lives as children of God.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, May 4, 2026

Parent God, we often find ourselves in the condition of seeming to be abandoned children, orphans, forsaken to the point of crying why from the crosses of human misery; help us to know the Christ who was unique Son and yet who knew forsakenness who can lead us to retain our children of God status through everything in life.  Amen.

Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2026

Jesus Christ, you knew yourself to be uniquely God's Son so that we might come to embrace the uniqueness of each of our own experiences as beloved children of God; give us grace to honor the manifold uniquenesses of so many people and yet find the communal harmony of love and justice for the common good.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 2, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, make us inventive in new ways of applying love and justice in the new situations especially when the ruts of past answers are tinged with old cultural practices of biases even while presuming that antiquity makes them superior as precedence; give us the liberty of knowing that justice is still the search for newness of application to people who are ever knowing themselves differently in their primary identities which is part of their dignity.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, May 1, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, it is an awesome to know ourselves as being mediated through this incredible language loop of knowing ourselves and the world which is continuously becoming named and valued; give us wisdom in the freedom which we do have in this loop to follow Jesus in being creative playwrights and actors of the living words of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, April 30, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, you have accrued metaphors of the superlative designations for how to best be divinely human as the example for us to our best as merely human children of God; keep us on the path in surpassing ourselves in excellence as it is manifest in love and justice in living well together.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, April 29, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, we thank you for perpetually morphing in our history so that our inward linguistic lenses can see you in new ways and places, to prove that your image finds our world a  projection screen for your presences.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, April 28, 2026

Eternal Word of God, we have knowingly become because in, by, and through having word, we know life in the many ways that we have come to know it;  but we know that knowing good and evil definitionally and contextually has come about from living worded lives; give us clarity in knowing goodness as justice and love for the common good.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, April 27, 2026

Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life; as the poetic all and in all, you have become a figure of identity for a way of life which is being living sacrifices as we learn to die to our selfish selves in order to live together well by making significant room for everyone in the world.  Amen.

Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2026

Good Shepherd Christ, we bemoan that the injunction to whom much is given, much is required, is mostly neglected by the wealthy and powerful as they mainly hoard the world's resources for themselves while vast numbers of people go unattended; we pray for the thwarting of misused power and the redirection of resources for the common good of all.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, April 25, 2026

God, the provider of enough, forgive us for not solving the equitable distribution of your generous gifts to our world through continuous selfish and tribal-centric choices of poor stewardship; restore us in the wisdom for the optimal care of the world, its people, creatures, and environment.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 24, 2026

God of harmony, help us to match up the power of care with situations of need in our world so that the complementing fulfillment of shepherding care and human need might find adequate and continuous resolution, through Jesus, our Great Good Shepherd.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 23, 2026

Risen Christ, forgive us from using the resurrection as mere comfort regarding our afterlives and not embracing the power of hope to work feverishly for bringing new life conditions in the pursuit of love and justice for the common good in this life.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 22, 2026

Risen Christ, let us not use the hope of the resurrection as an excuse to delay justice now for as many as possible, and let us not use hope as but a analgesic rather than as a stimulant to achieve as much excellence as we can in this life.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 21, 2026

Good Shepherd, who calls us to be good shepherds; give us wisdom about power inequities among people which leave many people without mediating advocates for their fair share in the experience of the quality of life benefits; give us courage to advocate for the weak even as exemplified by the advocacy of the poor by Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 20, 2026

Good Shepherd Christ, we witness the power dynamics of human interaction where exploitation of the needy and ignorant by the powerful often occur; send us good shepherds when we are vulnerable, and give us willing hearts to be good shepherds to those in need.  Amen.

 Third Sunday of Easter, April 19, 2026

Risen Christ, surprise us again and again and be exposed to us in the places where your omnipresence has been incognito; and reaffirm to us the sacramentality of all things which always already bear the goodness of original blessing.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 18, 2026

God, we live lives where surprises of all sorts suddenly interdict our probability anticipatory logic; let our surprises increase our inventory of knowing what may happen as we better prepare for what may come even while we honor the freedom of what may happen as the newness of new divine moments.  Amen. 

Friday in 2 Easter, April 17, 2026

Risen Christ, give us enough ministering favorable surprises to weather the unchosen but oft occurring unpleasant events that come with probable conditions of freedom; and let the moments of sublime surprise include the purposeful integration of the  suffering and affliction which can come to us.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 16, 2026

Risen Christ, keep us from being rigidly dogmatic and preventing the freshness of interpretations to arise in people finding your presence in stark and telling relevance to their lives.  Give us the discernment of what new things can happen in the lives of people as love and justice bend the arc of history toward fresh realizations. Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 15, 2026

Eternal Risen Eternal Word, give us linguistic protean elasticity as we are inspired by the many omnipresences of the divine in our world such that we can assert because of always already connectedness of all things, that the Risen Christ is another linguistic way of affirming the with-ness of God in incorporating all things.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 14, 2026

Risen Christ, give us the wisdom to honor the institution of the church, not as as a museum of calcified tradition to prohibit the new from happening, but as the prayer context for people to be able to say, when I pray, coincidences seem to happen.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 13, 2026

Risen Christ, give us enough of your sudden "poof" appearances, so that we can live faithful when you do not seem so apparent and we limit you to being around only when things are tellingly favorable for us; give us unselfish perspective to know that life itself is evidence of Christly presence.  Amen.

Second Sunday of Easter, April 12,2026

Eternal Christ, who as eternal Word, can be known poetically as all and in all, cure us of our doubt which limits how your risen presence might be known to us so that we might unlock ourselves to the possibility of being perpetually surprised.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 11, 2026

Eternal Word of God, we thank you for the mystery of language with us which can become the lens within us for seeing your many risen presences in the world as affirmation of the divine omnipresence of God being always already with us.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 10, 2026

God, we are given language to tame the vastness what what may probably happen to us within and without, and to others in this life who make the journey with us; let our language use be omni-competent to our life challenges deriving from the Eternal Word, who is with God and who is God.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 9, 2026

Gracious Resurrected Christ, even as our tradition shows that you made Mary Magdalene the first apostle of the your Risen Life; give us grace to return the proper status to women in being full leaders in your church even as your resurrection intention is surely authority for the full inclusion of women in the manifest ministry of women in the church.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Eternal Word, Risen Christ, All and in All, through words it is written that the creation came to be known in its many named forms, and the biblical record shows that we are naming people who even name how we came to be naming people.  As naming is the relationship of our inward Word projecting relationship with our outer world, give us resurrection hope for our future as people with language.  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 7, 2026

God as All, you have been equally All through every condition of time within your divine ground of omni-becoming; and though you are always already equally God, we limited humans parse degrees of your perceived apparent presence especially as those apparent presences have entered our narrative of the Risen Christ.  Give us O God, more experiences of apparent divine presence even as our weak faith seems to often doubt you when we not experiencing events of telling favor.  Let the Risen Christ help us to find the Eternal Word as being all and in all.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 6, 2026

God, we know that death is the ultimate sickness which comes to effect our lives in many ways; and because we have words we name it and it afflicting attending conditions; we give thanks for Christ the Eternal Word, who gives us resurrection words as our soothing placebo of living with the knowledge of death.  Amen.

The Day of the Resurrection, April 5, 2026

Risen Christ, give us the observer effects which enables us to see you as we know that we need to be have our interior linguistic lives become the prism of refraction to project how we see you.  Holy Spirit, be within us the mystical rearrangement of our seeing ability so that we might see Christliness as the omnipresence of the original goodness of all.  Amen.

Prayers for Easter, 2025

Saturday in 7 Easter, June 7, 2025

Give us grace and humility O God, to admit the obvious of togetherness on the ground of Great Becoming; give us courage to express togetherness as the supreme harmony of justice allowing differences to be harmonized in perfect togetherness.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, June 6, 2025

Spirit of Life, give us enough clusters of harmony within human community to promote health, love, and justice as being what is most definitive of the divine will for how we are to live together.  Give us wisdom and courage to choose these clusters of harmony. Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, June 5, 2025

O God, how can we know Unity and Oneness without the effects of Oneness? Give us grace to respond to the Oneness of All, with worded products of kind speech, wise writing, and body language deeds of justice, which is the perfection of harmony.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, June 4, 2025

God from whom the plenitudinous diversity was born and derived; coax us back to your Oneness as we in mystery know the mysterious depth of the Spirit as the Ground of Being before which any language or interpretation of the same can occur.  Let your omnipresence which is always before our interpretation of the same lure us to deeds of love and justice today which are fitting to your Oneness.  And forgive us any use of language which would deign to presume omni-competence. Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, June 3, 2025

Holy Spirit, your Oneness is only known through love and love's outcomes; deliver us from confessing Trinitarian Oneness while not practicing the proof of such in loving behaviors.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, June 2, 2025

Holy God, we seek the operation of your oneness to be manifested in harmonious peace among the peoples of this earth; give us grace in our local situations to initiate continuously the peace of unity to collaterally effect our world and join with other local peace initiatives to spread the divine Shalom.  Amen.

Sunday after the Ascension, June 1, 2025

Ascended Christ, you are the confession of the church about a mysterious place of the absence of Jesus to our eyesight; we thank you that as inapparent as you are to our eyesight, your apparency has now attained an inner presence within our bodies as temples of the Risen Christ.  Amen.

Saturday, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, May 31, 2025

Gracious God, we thank you for the lodging behaviors of birthing women like Blessed Mary and Elizabeth whose experience of actual gestational oneness with another person gives them gifted insights into empathy with others which can heal our communities toward acceptance of the completeness of harmonious differences.  Amen.

Friday after Ascension Day, May 30, 2025

Word Made Flesh Jesus, you became Flesh Made Word in the story of your Ascension; help us to ride the most apparent presence of the Divine in Jesus Christ into the invisible omni-Worded Christ as the All and in All as an interpretive practice of hope within the vast range of what may happen to us.  Amen.

Thursday, Feast of the Ascension, May 29, 2025

Ascended Christ, when Jesus become out of sight, you did not become out of mind but you imparted another presence to awaken our interiors to our God-ward spark; let your absence to our sight inspire us to access the inward Christ and to act from divine compelling love.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 28, 2025

God of wisdom, in our attempts to accrue wisdom from our actual experience, keep us humbly expectant and willing to be open to the uncanny and the surprises which can reveal our complacent thinking we have been calling objective knowledge.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 27, 2025

Eternal Word, teach us how to use language appropriate to the occasion and to avoid confusions of codes for the various discourses, so that we don't say true things in lying ways, or lying things while hiding behind the natural respect and good will that people may want to afford us.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 26, 2025, Memorial Day, USA

God of the living and dead, those who have gone before us are the foundational past necessary being and they have coded us with the traces which they have left in our lives; we honor with thanksgiving those who have died and left us with legacies to inform the direction of our decision making now for the enhancement of the common good.  Amen.

The Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 25, 2025

Manifestations of All at Once, let your wholeness exude toward us healing effects for situations of cruel war, hatred, and oppression, and let your wholeness coax everyone to a togetherness of the harmony of total mutual dignity of all people.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 24, 2025

God, on whom we project language ability enough to be a language user and omnipresent conductive communicator; help us to be communicators to spread peace and justice in ways which will promote the healing of our world.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 23, 2025

God, whose strength of patience is perceived as weakness before freedom; we think that you should intervene to prevent innocent suffering and the bullying of the powerful of all sorts; it does not seem much consolation to know that evil and harm have a terminus date in time as too much harm occurs in the meantime.  We patiently wait for the worth of true freedom for moral validity to proven as the supreme value in life.  If freedom be the supreme value, let us and all freely chose love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 22, 2025

O God of the Expanding Becoming Container of all, send the good ripples of echos from the expanding boundary throughout the whole and enable cataclysmic intervention in the evil trends of neglecting the expansive care for the greater common good of the world.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 21, 2025

O God, Send our world synchronies of peace and justice so that all might realize their gifts for the common good.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 20, 2025

Favor by protection from potential harm, O God, we remember those who do not have the favor of protection when they need it even as we don't under why everything that happens when it happens.  Give us grace to live with life's bafflements.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, May 19, 2025

Protect and keep us this day from the storms of life, so that we might know safe and harmonious timing with what may happen.  Let all manner of things be known to be well indeed today especially for those who do not have the knowledge, power, or wealth to preventatively avoid the harms of life.  Amen.

The 5th Sunday of Easter, May 18, 2025

Grant O God of Love, that we might be known by our love, not as gushy feelings but as the tough practice of applied justice in giving each person their proper dignity in their immediate setting.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 17, 2025

God who comprehends infinite diversity, you have given us language to enable story telling to give us definitive meaning and purpose on a continuum of being without differentiation save by the naming of words; give us grace to craft stories of love and justice within the many human clusters of community and let us found superlative meanings on love and justice in our clusters and be proverbial pebbles of justice hitting the waters of reality and influencing to the edge of all.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, May 16, 2025

Eternal Word, we cannot help but commit language products through and through; give us grace to be adept language user and help each to find their particular holy voice in articulating the very best of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, May 15, 2025

God of rushing profound Interiority; send irresistible love to the interior places of all people in apparent ways such that they would be convinced to commit themselves to justice and peace.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, May 14, 2025

God of love, your love includes abundant freedom for learning and such freedom to learn often reveals that we hurt each other and the earth badly; give us hope that the lure of your love for us to surpass ourselves in excellence will not cease even when in the temporal cluster of our experience gloom seems to triumph.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, May 13, 2025

Gracious Jesus, our identity with you is known through the practice of love; forgive us when we have failed both in our practice of love and in thus failing to instantiate our identity with you.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, May 12, 2025

God, you are the plentitude for us in being born into a human world of language such that all comes to some linguistic product which we name as thought, vision, spoken word, body deed, encoded environments, and from having access to endless interiority we confess you as the More of life; in humility we embrace ourselves as exponentially less than your More and we seek wisdom for the ordering of the small cluster within plenitude in which we are limited.  Amen.

The 4th Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2025

Eternal Word of God, be in us so that all our word products of thought, speech, writing, and body language might produce what is wisdom for each situation in our lives.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, May 10, 2025

God, let us confess the universally recommendable loving our neighbor as ourselves as what is truly catholic about our church; give us grace to love beyond our administrative restrictions which often exclude people who have no chance of complying with our historically and culturally derived rules and let us never deny the God given dignity to those who are different from us.  Amen.

 Friday in 3 Easter, May 9, 2025

God who wants to be One Shepherd with one flock of humanity; you are challenged to encompass such a diversity of human sheep in the cultural differences and in the developmental maturity differences such that the forced cohabitation often results in chaos and discord; give us grace to accept our local unities of like mindedness but with open mindedness to those who differ significantly so that we might be influenced to broaden our capacity to love in better ways with more people.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, May 8, 2025

Plenitudious One, it seems as though good and evil live as genetic viruses in the conditions of freedom while we hope for the winsomeness of goodness to be made our ultimate health; give to all the desire not to be repugnant in our behaviors to ourselves, to others, and to you.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, May 7, 2024

God, we desire you to be most charming and irresistible in persuading all people of this world to the outcomes of peace and justice but would such a great seduction be a assault on our naive and ignorant freedom to persist in the chaos of competing free systems?  We commit the mystery of the failure of your irresistability to the vital necessity of creative freedom and ask for courage to find immanent causes of love and justice as worthy of our constant efforts.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, May 6, 2025

Christ as All and in All, the object of our ultimate metaphorical license; let us resist sweeping poetic license for you if we refuse to let your Christly values of love for our neighbors sweep over our words and deeds of life.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, May 5, 2025

God, the Good Shepherd of all, we often wish that you were a forceful and coercive shepherd in not allowing freedom, but your hands off permission for all things to freely happen challenges us to use our freedom responsibly for the benefit of all.  Give us grace to learn how to be shepherd the freedoms of our lives.  Amen.

Third Sunday of Easter, May 4, 2025

Restore us O Christ by your Risen presence so that we might rise from our failures to be our best, to continue with humility to refuse to label our imperfections as perfection, but steadily surpass ourselves in the graceful excellences which pertain to love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, May 3, 2025

Jesus Christ of mercy, you show us that mercy is what we need in time not to achieve perfection as some final state of being but to fill out completeness in time; give us grace and wisdom to understand completeness as integrating confession, repentance, and forgiveness.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, May 2, 2025

Jesus Christ, you are presented to us as the Shepherd who came to teach shepherding, which is the use of knowledge, power, and position to help the vulnerable; help us to follow you in being those who rightly use our knowledge power, and wealth for lifting up of the vulnerable to their God-given dignity.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, May 1, 2025

Risen Christ, your appearances achieve biblical stories not to limit them to but a privilege few but to invite us to bring to witness where the essence of the Risen Christ intersects our lives; give us boldness to acknowledge your presence wherever we find the actualization of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 30, 2025

Shepherd of our souls, you call us from groveling in our own self-disillusionment to use the energy of disappointment about our lack of perfection for shepherding those who need care, because the act of care takes our gaze from ourselves and channels the grace of your love.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 29, 2025

Risen Christ, you restored Peter who denied you as the story of how any of us can be ignorantly proud of abilities only to be confronted in our failure and experience self-disillusionment; give us like you gave Peter hope for rehabilitation and continuous forgiving grace with each other in community to walk in the path of surpassing ourselves in excellence.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 28, 2025

Show yourself again Risen Christ, in telling ways so that the inner revealed peace in the hearts of those who know your indwelling might be motivated for the work of peace which is needed to be worked in our world.  Amen.

The Second Sunday of Easter, April 27, 2025

Risen Christ, doubting you at times is what we often do when you don't seem apparent because we prefer that you be known to us in only favorable things happening to us; thank you for returning to us in apparency so as to train us to remember that the sun of blessed presence still is shining even when the night of doubt darkens our life.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 26, 2025

Eternal Word, language is loose like a raging fire within human communities; we don't control that we have language, but we are given by you significant freedom to filter the portals of what we take in and what we produce in speech, writing and body language.  Give us grace to be playwrights and actors of justice and love in our performance of living.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 25, 2025

Give us awareness, O God, of the always already Risen Christ presences to us or we remain guilty of accusing you for short changing you for not giving us adequate God experiences because we compare our experiences as inferior to others.  Let us have the grace to embrace the different but equal experience of Christ as all and in all.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 24, 2025

Risen Christ, your many post-resurrections appearances to the billions who did not and have not seen Jesus affirms the mystical reality of our faith; give us humility not to make our own experience as reason to judge others whose experience is different than ours.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 23, 2025

God of hope, we ponder how our lives might be retained after the event of death, not because we think we deserve to live on after we die, but because hope's vision have given us such possibilities which leaves us feeling perpetually unfinished.  Let us not be left in the regret of unfinished lives without the hope of further completeness.  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 22, 2025,  (Earth Day)

Forgive us Risen Christ, for presuming that only those who walked with Jesus had valid experiences of God while we think it is humble not to have significant spiritual experience with unopened eyes to your many presences to us always, everywhere especially on this beautiful diverse earth given to us to steward.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, Death of Pope Francis

We commend to your resurrection life, Francis, who gracefully switched the perspective of his family of faith from emphasizing dogmatic exclusion and appealed to the winsome love of Christ for all people in various states of not being perfect but who could be on the grace complemented perfectible path of becoming better at loving God and our neighbors.  Amen.

Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025

Gracious Risen Lord, on this day we celebrate that you were known to have profound continuity with yourself after you had died at the hands of a crushing empire; give us joy in knowing that we have hopeful continuity with the everlastingness which you revealed.  Amen.

Prayers for Easter, 2024

Saturday in 7 Easter, May 18, 2024

Gracious Holy Spirit, as we seek to accept that our continuity as an existing being, we seek such in your greater connecting reality of stringing together the mystery of how identity is carried forever in time.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 17, 2024

God who represent the highest of human value, give us the grace to continue to value in better ways the best ways to apply justice and love to the people in our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 16, 2024

Lord Jesus who is Word of God, you said that your words are Spirit and they are life; let the Spirit words of our lives be inventive and creative of the order of love and justice in our world so that we might be connected in the best possible ways.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 15, 2024

God, we confess you as the Great Spirit of the infinite negligible, the mystery of what we cannot know and see in terms of direct causation effects of what is happening in our lives; in faith we hold to a profound connecting Thread of Love within all things to make all manner of things well, indeed.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 14, 2024

God of unity, we seek a string of unity of the connection of all things in time; give us grace to assist the creative evolving of love and justice in time and the Spirit of Wisdom to hold diversity together in harmony.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 13, 2024

Holy Spirit, we seek to know the influence of the expanding greatness of One in the midst of incalculable diversity; give us wisdom to know how to direct the magnetism of the gravity of One into local phenomena of the peace of harmony.  Amen.

 Sunday, 7 Easter, May 12, Sunday after the Ascension

Jesus Christ, you gave us the example of prayer, not as a way to believe that we can micromanage God's interventions in the world, but to embrace Christ the Word who calls to the communication vocation of being language users who bear the image of Christ the Word.  Give us the grace of perpetual communication with you as all and in all and let our prayers be perpetual intercessional requests for the outcomes of love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Easter, May 11, 2024

Ascended Christ, Word of God; let your intercessors sustain us continually to live with the dreadfully wonderful and frightening freedom which is aboard in this world.  Grant us the wisdom to live with all the probabilities which freedom implies, and help us the shape the direction of the future with love and justice that creates a stronger probability of more future love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Easter, May 10, 2024

Ascended Christ, you have become a metaphor for everything having been freed from the limitations of being bodily in Jesus of Nazareth; give us grace not to use your "all and in all" status to justify words and deeds unworthy of what love and justice means in practice.  Amen.

Thursday, Ascension Day, May 9, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, you have left this world in your particular bodily form, but you did not have to leave us a double portion of your spirit because you awakened us to the always, already Holy Spirit as the continuous omnipresence of the divine in our world.  In your absence and memory, O Jesus, let us manifest spiritual Christliness in our world through love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 8, 2024

Lord of the Ascension, you ask of us to be continually drawn upward in surpassing our former vision and panorama of what has happened so that we might integrate all that has happened in making down to earth better choices of love and justice today.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 7, 2024

Lord of the Ascension, you have mystically allowed us to ride your elevator to sit with you in heavenly places in profound inward and peaceful places to give us insightful and refuge perspective upon our exterior world which often are far from peaceful or heavenly.  In your ascension we are elevated to find perspectives of love, joy, peace, love, and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 6, 2024

Lord of the Ascension, we seek the eddying vortex of your rise to be the spiritual energy for us to rise in the ability to offer the highest love and serve for God and for our world which needs to rise Godward rather and sink to be our lesser angels.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Easter, May 5, 2024

God of Love, let us receive each day greater love, surpassing love to meet the needs of love and justice which continually confront us.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 4, 2024

God who has befriended us to feel like we belong; give us befriending gifts to help others feel that they belong in this world with enhanced dignity or worth and acceptance.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 3, 2024

Jesus Christ, Friend of humanity, let friendship come to the people who need it the most today and in the forms which are most telling to their individual needs.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 2, 2024

O God of Love, be the connecting string of permanence within all the transitory immensely varied events of our lives and give us the sense that all things are always already held together for ever with purposes known and yet to be known.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 1, 2024

God of Time and Change, living process is the continual laying down of the life of what was for the life of what will be; where we have the volitional power let us influence the life that will be with words and deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, April 30, 2024

God, our playwright, Language Originator and Language User, you have give us love and justice as scripts for our lives but you require us to ad lib within the emerging events of our lives; let our acting also be our real lives of seeking to apply justice and love in the circumstances of our lives.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, April 29, 2024

God of Love, how can you bear all things without pinpoint restraining intervention? In freedom you call us to be your weakness and we ask you to give us the greatest strength while being weak to prevent harm, hate, and persecution in our world.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Easter, April 28, 2024

Christ the Vine, through you flows the holy sap of our connectedness with God and all things because the experience of the sublime makes us poets.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, April 27, 2024

God who is love, we extoll and overuse the word love as a superlative cliche of human existence; grant us the ability to do love rather than just talk about its importance.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, April 26, 2024

Risen Christ, as the all and in all, you are connecting vine within all things; teach us to learn the best way to be connected with you, each other, and our island home.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, April 25, 2024

Jesus Christ, the impression that you made while you lived was unleashed by how you became known as the Risen Christ; and while we confess you poetically as being all and in all, let us instantiate your poignant intentional presence in events of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, April 24, 2024 (Genocide Remembrance Day)

God of love, let the rainbow in the sky be a sign to us that the destruction of people on this earth by anyone is a violation of love and justice which proceeds from the essence of who you are.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, April 23, 2024

God, for a world in which love has become a cliche, we confess you as Love, from which every other love is but an imperfect reflection; give us strength for the hardy love of the practice of justice which is applied love for those who need it the most.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, April 22, 2024

Christ the Vine, you are the organically spiritual connection residing in all; grant everyone access to the deep image upon all so that the flow of the divine might make us our best human selves.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Easter, April 21, 2024

Good Shepherd Christ, give us discernment and willingness to be shepherding people who in kindness make pets of those in need to nurture them to be grateful shepherds, who like us learn from our needs to minister to others.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, April 20, 2024

Shepherd us O Christ, in the care that we need when we need it through your agents who are inspired to help us; and grant us also to be inspired agents of shepherding care when others need such care.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 19, 2024

Good Shepherd Christ, when we need help please send us good shepherds; and when we see others who need help let us arise to be good shepherds.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 18, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, citizens of great empires have come to regard themselves as Christians and yet we as Christians have allowed and been complicit in unChrist-like actions be done in our name; we ask for the impossible in asking that you would convert empires into good shepherds who care for the most vulnerable.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 17, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, you are the good shepherd not of us a commodities in your flock for our human product equivalent of wool and meat; you have made us to be favored pets who bring you joy even as we learn the delight of being drastically inferior to you in the very best ways of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 16, 2024

God, you are the great collective of all life, give us grace in our various human collective to admit what we done wrong to knowingly and unknowingly harm others and our environment; give us the wisdom of a reparative mission to creatively have authentic repentance with genuine actions to redress the results of the harmful actions of those who have left us with some obvious clean up.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 15, 2024

Good Shepherd, give us the grace of shepherding so that we as mere sheep might help other needy sheep to their full life potential.  Amen.

3 Easter, April 14, 2024

Risen Christ, you ate with your disciples in your appearances; let you appearance continual be known in the adequate food supply for everyone in our world.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 13, 2024

Risen Christ, let your presence be multiplied over and over again under the guise of adequate food for all people in this world as food supports life.  We accept your omnipresence in the enough food for all today.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, April 12, 2024

Risen Christ, you appeared to your disciples variously including in partaking of food; we receive the Eucharist as partaking of the Risen Christ presence again and again.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 11, 2024

Almighty God, let the power of the Gospel be known by your winsome Holy Spirit; let us never adopt coercive practices to prove the validity of love and justice even as we embrace good laws for the protection of the freedom of all.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 10, 2024

God of creative freedom, it is awesome to confront what freedom means in our world; it often seems a high price to pay for the free possibility for bad things to happen.  Give us a deep appreciation for the real freedom which we have to create the probability that good things can happen through our agency, especially in acts of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 9, 2024

God, we believe in the substantial world which confronts our senses, but we humbly recognize that we only process and perceive this world through the inward and invisible faculty of language; give us renewing inward Easter grace for the lenses of our language to perceive your graceful presence in our world, but not just for perceiving but for expediting creative acts of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 8, 2024

Holy Spirit, you overshadowed Blessed Mary for her to realize the special child to be born to her; you overshadow us to help us realize the Christ-image born within us to enable us to realize our destiny as children of God.  Amen.

Second Sunday of Easter, April 7, 2024

Gracious Risen Christ, let us be doubters like Thomas of having any superior experiences of you which would deny the validity of your presence to so many other people in ways which are telling to their specific circumstances.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 6, 2024

God of our faith, give us continual doubt about the final adequacy of what we think we know about you and everything and so keep us humbly open to new understanding in new times of what love and justice requires of us.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 5, 2024

Everlasting God, we know in time we die and we mourn the loss of our compositional state of being dependent upon seeing, hearing, and touching for empirical verification; grant us faith to accept the absolute past of our lives and the lives of our loved ones and let us accept that such objectivity of the absolute past is never lost but contained in the composition of everything which continues including us while we can be empirically verified.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 4, 2024

Come again O Risen Lord and be apparent in new ways to our world; in adequate food for everyone, in justice for everyone, in the defeat of greed and cruelty, be known in our lives.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Risen Lord, we ask again and again when your manifest reappearances will occur; will we find you appearing when peace, love, and justice breaks into our human experiences?  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Risen Christ, we wait for your surprise "peek a boo" sudden appearance which can arise at anytime and place because all things are filled with the glory of God butt sometimes experienced as pain, suffering, and loss.  Give us grace to do our part in shaping the sustaining glory of life toward the outcomes of love and justice.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 1, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ of resurrection continuity; we review the record of your re-appearances, even as we ask for wisdom and insight to recognize your appearances to our world especially within the works of love and justice which happen for people who need the sense of your presence.  Amen.

Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024

Eternal Word and Risen Lord, we look to you for our sustaining continuity beyond the seeming discontinuous event of death; preserve and retain us in your mercy and improve us as we are being continually remade in your image.  Amen.

Prayers for Easter, 2023

Saturday in 7 Easter, May 27, 2023

God who is every where, help us to realize being in the Spirit as a way to live and move and have our being.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 26, 2023

Gracious God who is Plenitude; like fish in water, we live in you and a connection with you and everything else; give us grace to work on the best possible connections especially with other people with the excellence of actualized love and justice. Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 25, 2023

Invisible Spirit, as the wind blows the branches on a tree, let your visible effects be known today in and through us as the words and deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 24, 2023

Holy Spirit, conductor of all experience for mutual and reciprocal living; give us grace to submit to your gentle orchestrations so that we might play the harmonies of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 23, 2023

Holy Spirit, you are the life force enabling us to be instruments of the divine; blow your breath through us to achieve the love and justice which is needed for our survival and hope for the future.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 22, 2023

Creator God, whom we believe to have called creation good; give us the same appreciative care for the diversity of creation and let mutual care be the unifying Spirit of our lives.  Amen.

Sunday, 7 Easter, May 21, 2023

Gracious God, you encourage us to prayer so as to acknowledge at all time the larger context; we know that our specifically located context resides within many unknown causative details; give us grace to accept the mystery of what we do not and cannot know, but give us courage to trust the best of our instincts toward a loving and just world.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Easter, May 20, 2023

Christ who is the sign of divine-human bi-linguality; you lived and spoke human experience divinely so that we might have the best pattern to follow not in trying to emulate all the features of the time of Jesus, but to interpret the message of love into our time and place.  Let our interpretations of your life be known as the practice of justice in our lives.  Amen.

 Friday, in 6 Easter, May 19, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, in your priestly prayer you ask that we might be one as you are one with the Father; give us grace to be the answer to that prayer as we accept our unity with our heavenly parent.  Amen.

Ascension Day, May 18, 2023

Eternal Word of God, you were emptied into the limitations of being a human being in time, but you returned to your pan-linguistic all in allness in the Ascension; grant us an awareness of your presence wherever we go today.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 17, 2023

Eternal Word of God, you are essence of communication and encourage us to use prayer discourse as a way of relating our inner world of mystery with the outer world of sensorial objects; let us exalt our use of language with the habit of prayer and so invoke the angelic messengers of the divine on the ladder between the inner and outer world.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 16, 2023

God who is ever emptied into the created order, and yet remains the fullness of being the All; help us to activated the "emptied" portion of divinity with our lives so that we might had to the harmony of justice and love which is the divine score of the universe.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 15, 2023

Gracious Jesus, we have lived without the majority never having seen or touched you, yet we have in faith claimed access to your inner life of word and spirit; keep bringing the effects of love and justice to his world even in your hidden presence.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Easter, May 14, 2023, also U.S. Mother's Day

God, in you we live and move and have our being so that we can never be birthed outside of you; we remain ever within the God-womb of being and becoming.  Give us grace to live together well as ever your family with hopes of maturing in love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 13, 2023

God who contains all and lovingly cares for all, you still allow a challenging and oft baffling freedom of occurrences to make life an ordeal and a maze, interspersed with incredible delight and joy to buoy us to continue as we seek to be lured by love and justice as the best way to live in free conditions.  Amen.

 Friday in 5 Easter, May 12, 2023

God, help to accept your immanence even when kindness does not seem to rule the events of life; give us courage to honor the moral significance which arises from the genuine freedom in our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 11, 2023

God who ever is creative freedom, we are grateful for having the genuine freedom of agency to contribute to what actually becomes, even as with fear and trembling we honor the awesome task of freely making this world better.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 10, 2023

God, the expanding Container of All in time, let our contribution to the expansion of All be the creative acts of love and justice and so build a better future.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 9, 2023

God who is the Parent of All, we acknowledge that there are many who feel like orphans in our world; give us grace to be active in the work of Jesus who said that he would not leave us as orphans.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, May 8, 2023

God of expanding horizon, we can never reach your outermost edge, even as you contain us who live and become within you; give us grace to be good stewards of the existential territory where we find ourselves located within the overarching divine milieu.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Easter, May 7, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, we are part of the greater works of the future which you promised would happen after you left; give us your Spirit to keep filling the future with the greatness of love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 6, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, you are the way, the truth, and the life; we seek to follow your way in honesty with the hope of abundant life.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, May 5, 2023

Gracious Christ, you promised not to leave us a orphans and to teach us access to our heavenly parent who has a dwelling place for us; let our bodies be made fit dwellings for the presence as we honor our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, May 4, 2023

God of creation, from your Plentitude we have a home to live in and from the words of Jesus we will have future places prepared for us; give us grace to take good care of the our earthly home and to be those who provide homes for those who do not have a place to live.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, May 3, 2023

O God, the vastness of Plenitude persuades us about the vastness and our connection with all being; give us grace to join with others who are persuaded about the superior values of love and justice coming to all people.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, May 2, 2023

God, because we have language, we confess ourselves as smart parts of Plentitude.  Because we have language, we are persons who see everything as personal, and so we confess you as a personal Plenitude with relational regard for everything.  Give us secrets to good relational behaviors today.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, May 1, 2023

God, you are the dwelling of the universe itself and you send your homing invitations to us as the Hospitable One who has made a place for us and we recognize ourselves today as a dwelling place for You.  Amen.

 Sunday, 4 Easter, April 30, 2023

Gracious and Shepherding God, bring to an end those who use power and position to exploit the vulnerable who do not have the capacity to fend for themselves.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, April 29, 2023

God of Easter, who renews the world through loving service; give us grace to follow the Good Shepherd Jesus who came to lay down his life for his friends.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 28, 2023

Holy God, we are so lost in your All-ness, that we cannot but humbly be but short occasions within your constant expanding creating environment; give us grace to pursue enlightened togetherness in your All-ness today.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 27, 2023

God of everything circumstance, we can know plenty and we can know need; let the situations of plenty and need be matched today to balance human living with wise reciprocity for the common good.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 26, 2023

God, we confess you as our shepherd, because you are more than the exploitive shepherds of this worlds; you care for us not for our potential products but for the delight of friendship.  Grant us courage to oppose the exploitive relationship in our world so that we may lovingly delight in you and each other.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 25, 2023

God, whom we assume is a Language User, because we confess you as language users to be Word made flesh; give us the humility to avoid limiting you to but our words about you since they necessarily must be mixed with every possible word that could be.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 24, 2023

Gracious God, we are given the image of Christ as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his friends; give us grace to lay down our lives with the redirection of our life energy for the good of others.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Easter, April 23, 2023

Gracious God, we cherish the surprises when the Sublime meets and encourages us with hope; we asks for adequate surprises to be discovered today to motivate plentiful survival for the manifold peoples of this world.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 22, 2023

God who is mostly incognito in the world in any specific way you are best known in the plenitude of everything, altogether, all at once; give us grace to live with the mystery of everything, altogether, all at once while being diligent to make particular the meaning of your best Name of Love.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, April 21, 2023

God we live in the unknowing of things happening in ways that we didn't hope for and we live with the resolutions of past uncertainties becoming present certain knowledge; give us the faith in the now to assume hindsight certainty as present trust based upon our knowledge of your loving heart for us.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 20, 2023

God who has been unveiled in serendipitous moments to many; thank you for the surprises of your apparent favor and let these surprises help us to highlight the general sustaining presence of the divine milieu in which we live and move and have our being.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 19, 2023

God whose presence is experienced by us as apparent or non-apparent; give us grace to retreat to your omnipresence even when you don't seem so obvious in the manifestation of seeming negative outcomes of freedom in our lives.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 18, 2023

Christ of the resurrection, you have become the one proclaimed as All and in All; let this general omnipresence be made known as specific presence to us in our efforts to become more Christ-like in our behaviors.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 17, 2023

Omnipresent God who is also known as Christ as All and in All; surprise us today with the sublime presences which we need to live and promote the love and justice needed to sustain the people of the world today.  Amen.

The Second Sunday of Easter, April 16, 2023

Gracious God, teach us holy doubting when inappropriate interpretations of life do not fit; give us open minds to be renewed in what is appropriate to love and justice in each situation.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 15, 2023

God of surprise, the introduction of resurrection gave a new narrative for hope; give us grace to ever keep hope alive in the lives of as many people as we can today.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 14, 2023

Gracious God, give us wisdom to recognize the many resurrection appearances of Christ in our lives today, and help us to enable others to see these appearances tailored to their own life experience.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 13, 2023

Enlightening God, you have let us know that having language allows us to know and name things in our inward and outward lives; help us to name things aright so that justice for each person and each occasion might be pursued with greater clarity each day.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Christ who is All and in All, forgive us when we limit the ways in which you can become known to those who seek to do good.  Give us joy when others find you in unsuspecting places.  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Gracious God of the future, we doubt because of tentativeness of all things, and because what we do now depends upon an endless future to be fully known; give us hope for future on future today.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 10, 2023

God of resurrection; death happens in the context of everything else having happened; teach us to not separate death from everything else including us never being ready for the changes of death on personal relationships and community.  Amen.

Easter, April 9, 2023

Gracious God, on this day we celebrate that Jesus knew himself again after he had died and his disciples knew him too; help us to live in the hope of being preserved for having lived because nothing can ever be subtracted from having been.  Amen.