Add Pray To Your Day!
Meditation Prayer
Simple Sign
Simple Sign Tonight, I am fullof uncertainties:rushing water, rocks and loosened stones. Above me, stars reach connecting pieces of my scattered life, forming constellations of doubt. But when all is quiet, I hear the creek pulsing outside my window.
The Truth About Ugly Pumpkins
The Truth About Ugly Pumpkins I love pumpkin: pie, seeds, bread, and soup. Just like the ugly scarecrow and the ugly gargoyle, the ugly jack-o-lantern was designed to "ward off evil spirits." I always thought this was a hilarious approach: ward off evil with an ugly decoy! ...
You Are All
You Are All From the vastness of the universefull of darkness,stars and infinite space,to the tiny wonder of one small seedcradled in dark soil,bathed in spring rain,waiting to grow.You are in it all.It is all in You.From the ice of winter,sparkling, waiting, quiet.To the green of summer,insects...
Silent Partner
Silent Partner Grace training began three years ago with the first heartfelt prayer of my life: Help me. This isn't the life I would have chosen, If I had my druthers.
Worship
Worship I need YouI weep for YouI reach out for YouI feel YouI think of YouI worship YouGuide me to bea better person today than yesterdayLet the joy of worshipmanifest in meand others will know your comfortunderstandingforgivenessand love.
Fresh Day
Fresh Day The black of night still hoversas the morning trickles forth.Remind me to keep this dayfresh, reverent and holy.Remind me with my baby's gurgle,my old dog's swishing tail,the scent of coffee brewing,with the blessing of this unknown day.
Sacred Space
Sacred Space There are eight million stories in the naked city,all of them overlapping.Help us find a way to take our homes with us,to carry them inside us so that we're never lost.Create a mobile sacred space for each of usso that there's no need for us to clash or collide.Help us to play well with others. Allow us a portion of Your eminent...
Miracles of Routine
Miracles of Routine I wake.I am blessed to meet the new day.I stretch and snuggle,I am blessed with arms, legs and body at my command.I open my eyes, I am blessed with vision. I listen to the sounds and silence around me,I am...
Me Time
Me Time
Tick-Tock
Tick-Tock Time is like air,it's a background to everything.It's always there, and like things always there,I can sometimes take it for granted,or not use it wisely. I yearn to spend my time like diamonds,creating premium moments;leveraging minutes for masterpieces,upgrading conversations into communion,allowing the...
Can Meditation Help End Your Suffering?
Rev. Guo Cheen says it can. She offered a practical example. Let's say something has angered you, and you feel it in your body. Blood rushes to your face, and your heart-beat quickens. This is when we have a choice. Most times, we "fight" or "fly." But Cheen walked us through a third option: "relax into the suffering and pain."Hmmm, suffering is not something I typically want to "relax into." But I'd prefer it to fighting or fleeing, so I thought...
Seventh Day
Seventh Day Sometimes the answer is in the waiting…sometimes the answer is, be still. Pause. Breathe.For Whoever crafted nature, tiny toddler toes, and worlds without...
Listening
Listening Your voice is like the rainthat gently hits the roof of my car.It's a song asking me to open a doorand exit. Get up. Move on.Rise from there and laugh again. But all I want to do,for just now,is sit inside and listen. You make everything new again.
Unfolding
Unfolding I belong to You.I know this best when I am here,sharing this space and timewith only You. I unfold here,bringing each part of myself forward againto be seen by Your familiar eyesand to be held in Your focused affection. Please unfold for me, too.Let me meet You the way You meet me--with exclusive attention,with...
There is More
There is More There is a pattern to sunlightdancing soft shadowsacross the morning trees.There is an order, even to the current,flowing towards tumbling waterfalls.There is destiny based on choices,and a calling to those who search.There is more here than even a poetcan pen at dawn, and a philosophercan...
The Hike
The Hike The world seems endless.The hills rolling on below and around me,the trees tall and unbendingfrom here to the horizon and beyond.I see You.I see the work of Your hands,I hear the sound of Your voice,I feel Your breathsoft and cool on my skin.
Machinery
Machinery
Day's Cycle
Day's Cycle Each day is a prayer.Each morning is a way of saying,"May I..." to the coming day.Each afternoon the work we dohonors the light inside us.Each evening our reflectionsare a dialogue between soul and the Greater Spirit.Each night is a thanksfor the day well endedand for the rest we receive,that...
Au Fait
Au Fait You know every sole that has ever left a footprint in the sand.You know every child who has ever flown home from collegeto spend a holiday with their family.You know every Scout leader that has hiked a forest trail.
Saturday Energy Rush
Saturday Energy Rush Today is a day for living!I step into sunlight, blinking,unused to bona fide illumination.What wonders You have laid before me!Let us drink them in together. Saturday is a shot of Vitamin C.I thank You for its energy, its pulse;
Muses
Muses As I sit musing, I wonder,where does inspiration comes from?Everything distracts me as I work at my desk:the indigo flame of sunset out my window,a sweet furball of a dog with the bark of Darth Vader asking for a belly rub,the joyboy padding...
Music Within
Music Within I want my life to ring,to surge like a cello,deep and movinggraceful and resonant—the sound of Your voicewhen you speak to me.I hear little songsin my mindof Your promises.They carry methrough each day,and I dance.
Rejuvenation
Rejuvenation Awake to a damp, cloudy morn;rain imminent.Take a breath of thick, heavy air.I don't ask for sunshine,just a bright perspective of this day.The rains pour down.Rains that cleanse the mind, the air;rains that nourish every living thing.Including me.
Listening for You
Listening for You Time and time again,I bring my concerns and worries to You,but when I try to hear Your voice,something always gets in the way. The phone rings.The oven timer goes off.Someone calls my name. Please help me find a time,a place, a way to hearwhat it is You need to tell...
Flower Power
Flower Power May flowers: a verb.It opens up to rain and sun alternately, taking both, needing both to grow.Expose me to the lessonsthat May flowers know:There is goodness to be gleanedfrom both trials and triumphs,sun and rain.Both will come in the weeks ahead.I am ready.
With Me
With Me Here beside You, I am known. You have the words I cannot find. You know the truths I will not speak. You offer me peace I thought was out of reach. You are my warmest companion, my perfect joy.
Refreshed
Refreshed Breathe when all else fails,Breathe to reconnect.In the freshness of the air,You are there taking meto my final place, for today,we are ending on a noteof kindness and grace.
Small Wonders
Small Wonders I praise You for the tiny gloriesI am often too busy to see:the irregular scallop of a maple leaf,the impossible yellow of a dandelion, the perfection of untrammeled snow. For the scrap of sunlight the cat findsin the darkened hallway,I thank You.
