Category: Daily Prayer

Stepping out among Strangers Good morning, prayerful friends! We have nearly reached the end of July – the height of summer and time to prepare for holidays, prepare for time to put away your tools for a while and do other things, time to take refreshment. Let us thank God for this new day in the...

A reading from Psalm 78 23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens; 24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. 25 Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. 26 He let loose...

Reading and Studying the Word of God My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their body. Proverbs 4: 20–22 NASB The...

Let me think by Faiz Ahmed Faiz You ask me about that country whose details now escape me, I don’t remember its geography, nothing of its history. And should I visit it in memory, It would be as I would a past lover, After years, for a night, no longer restless with passion, With no fear...

Good morning, good people on this last Wednesday of July. Yesterday we had the funeral of our sister in Christ, Joy Okwuadigbo, a strong, tenacious and loving lady, a good example to follow. 1 The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake. 2 Great is the Lord in Zion;...

Do you have any advice for those of us just starting out? by Ron Koertge Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave your house or apartment. Go out into the world. It’s all right to carry a notebook but a cheap one is best, with pages the color of weak tea and on the front...

Evening by Raymond Carver I fished alone that languid autumn evening. Fished as darkness kept coming on. Experiencing exceptional loss and then exceptional joy when I brought a silver salmon to the boat, and dipped a net under the fish. Secret heart! When I looked into the moving water and up at the dark outline of...

Do you have any advice for those of us just starting out? by Ron Koertge Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave your house or apartment. Go out into the world. It’s all right to carry a notebook but a cheap one is best, with pages the color of weak tea and on the front...

Trauma and silence By Felicia Murrell. If you’re silent, you can hear the forest breathe, the holy hush of the tree’s limb. “Silence,” said Thomas Merton, “is God’s first language”: the way it soaks into your skin, surrounds you, blanketing you like the forest’s breath. Silence: The cadence of the land at rest, the body asleep,...

Good evening, everyone.  Welcome to Friday evening’s prayers. We begin this evening with a reading from Psalm 145: 10-18: 10 All your works praise you, Lord; your faithful people extol you. 11 They tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might, 12 so that all people may know of your mighty acts and the glorious...

My beloved spoke: Arise my love and come away, for behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree ripens its fruit and the vines are in blossom;...

A reading from Paul’s letter to the Colossians 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy...

Carriers of Love and Hope in a Hurting World And live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:2 NIV® God‘s redemptive love for us is beyond anything this world offers us. There is nothing we can do to earn...

Speech to the young Speech to the Progress-towards by Gwendolyn Brooks Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.” You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song....

Good morning, good people, at the end of another school year which has been disrupted. I guess that those who have been involved hope it is not going to be repeated. But it is holiday period, so let us look forward with hope that we can meet in person with one another more. For Israel had...