Liturgy As we gather from our week,we hold true to your promise thatwhen two or three – or two hundred –of us gather, you are there.Be among us and within us. Yet we admit that we do not always actas one body, and we let interpretationscome before community. Show us...
Liturgy Ever-present God, we come to you overwhelmed,a grain of sand lost in a mighty dune. We feel aloneand unseen, powerless to resist the winds of opposition. As the warmth of the sun meets our faces, we breathein the truth that we are lovingly and wonderfully...
Liturgy Holy Mystery, we know it takes little faithto see the sacred in the extraordinary. Yet you constantly remind us that sacred faith is in the ordinary,and it takes courage to believe the mundane can be enough. As we gather, teach us that grace can emergeeven...
Liturgy As we join together, we confessit can be, at times, hard to rememberwhat love does.Love waits, it is patient, it does not force itself. We confess, our fears and our egoscan cloud our direction and judgment.Where is love?Love doesn’t keep score and doesn’t...
Liturgy Beloved family of God: our lives are carriedlike leaves on the current of our weeks.We arrive in this place burdened by so muchthat saturates us to the verge of sinking. Surround us, God of compassion.Reach into the waves, Son of Man,Fill us, Spirit of the...
Liturgy Oh Lord, hear now our request.Great is our heart for your people.Great are your people in their number and need. Greatly provide us paths of expansion.In all manner of the mind and inner witness,and of the spleen and intuition. May we see and know and not...
Liturgy God of justice, peace, and righteousness,be in our midst this morning.Breathe your breath, your Spirit of life,your energy, your enlivening,your imagination on us. Wake us up, open our eyes,Open our mouths, and unplug our earsthat we might hear, that we might...
Liturgy Beloved community of friends and siblings,let’s take a moment to breathe together,even while we are still apart. (pause for a breath) We are in a season of transition.May God be our constant. We are making plans and filling our schedules.May God give us space...
Liturgy Lord God, we come to you this morning as fragile beings.Oftentimes, we hide our vulnerability from each otherdeclaring ourselves weak and unloveable. We’ve calloused our delicate heartsto survive our daily hardships.Unknowingly, these hardened heartshave kept...
Liturgy Creator God, at the dawn of time,You created not one living thing, but many.You bent the boughs of the live oak tree thatwe might swing from their mighty branches.You flattened the paddles of the prickly pearand left sweet nectar inside.We rejoice in the life...