“As I light this flame, I lay myself before Thee.” (Ancient Celtic Prayer)
Advent 2019
Category Archives: Desert Diaries
Eternal Autumn
“For the leaving of birds in formations to the south / And the expectation of new things to come…”
Kingdomtide 2019
“Over the next several weeks, we will focus our contemplation, prayer, study, and actions through the lens of the Kingdom of God…”
The Gift of Tears
“Choose the way of the yucca…”
Pentecost 2019
Let’s make ourselves “open to receive the Spirit’s flame so that it will come to rest in our hearts”
These Ashes We Must Wear
“The ashes call us to return to our origin and look forward to our destiny: the dust of the earth…”
Tsedeq
“As you broke the river’s surface at your baptism: So reconcile me to you in peace…”
Epiphany 2019
“For this season of Epiphany, let’s seek God for a sharpening of our senses that we may experience love and truth revealed in the scriptures, one another, and through all creation…”
Through the Coming Year:
“God,
Grant that I may pass through the coming year with a faithful heart. There will be much to test me and make weak my strength before the year ends. In my confusion I shall often say the word that is not true and do the thing of which I am ashamed. There will be errors in the mind and great inaccuracies of judgment. In seeking the light, I shall again and again find myself walking in the darkness. I shall mistake my light for Your light and I shall drink from the responsibility of the choice I make…Though my days be marked with failures, stumblings, fallings, let my spirit be free so that You may take it and redeem my moments in all the ways my needs reveal. Give me the quiet assurance of Your Love and Presence. Grant that I may pass through the coming year with a faithful heart.”
-Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
Howard Thurman, 1899-1981
