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Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2017.12.10

Liturgy You, who are participants in the glory of Love, listen. God is here. You, who are renewed to new life with each rain, look. God is here. You, who are given breath so you can speak, breathe deeply. God is here. We open our hearts to hear the word of God today. May we receive the love that is […]

Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2017.12.03

Liturgy Holy One, in this season of Advent, we wait for you to break into our worlds, unexpectedly. Help us to stay awake, to participate, and look for signs of your hope. We pray for your peace in this world when you will settle things fairly between nations, and make things right between all peoples. We pray for the peace […]

Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2017.11.26

Liturgy Holy God, we thank you for your gifts of mercy and life. We remember you are a generous God, and want us to flourish and live life freely and abundantly in your service to our world. Heavenly Father, by your remarkable gift of grace, you allow us, finite beings, to bear nothing less than the fruits of your Holy […]

Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2017.11.19

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, Unplug our ears that we might hear, that we might see, that we might grieve, that we might dream, that we might follow the ways of […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 2017.11.12

Liturgy Come with your questions, come with your awe, for the God who broods over the chaos meets us in this place. Come with your energy, come with your weariness, for the God who breathes new life into the dust meets us in this place. Come with your sadness, come with your joy, for the God who dared to become […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 2017.11.05

Liturgy God our Father – Giver of good gifts and Lifter of the downtrodden – equip us to relax in your love. We come to this moment weary, we begin and end our weeks with achy joints, creaky souls, and loves strained to breaking. Both in the church and in the world, we have been told to earn our keep. […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 2017.10.29

Liturgy Restore us, O Living God, by the breath of your Spirit, for some of us are wilted and weary. Some of us are anxious for restoration, and wonder if it will happen at all. Hear our voices crying out amidst the noise, where we hide to wait for a new day. Let us not be bound to the earth […]