Tag: prayer
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A Prayer For The First Day of School 2021
Dear Lord, the buses are running and the backpacks are filled, lunches are made and pencils are sharpened. In many ways it feels normal, and so I make the normal prayers. I pray for children to learn, about words, worlds, bugs, and books but also learn about themselves and to grow as people. May kindergarteners…
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Psalm 72:1-8 Advent Two: A Meditation
The readings for the second week of advent (Year A, 2019) have a theme of the rule of the future Davidic king bringing peace and harmony to the world: Romans 15 speaks to the scope of this reign as over the Jews and Gentiles, Matthew 3 is the summary of John the Baptist’s preaching in…