Sunflowers: Pronouncing a Blessing
An EXCERPT from the 2020 Summer Sabbath Series: The Inventions of Summer. Sunflowers: Pronouncing a Blessing Read Psalm 113 “From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised.” — Psalm 113:3 Pause for Reflection The...
“How Then Shall I Live” Free Email Retreat
January 2020 Email Retreat Here is your free retreat: (click on retreat title to download and print) How Then Shall We Live What best supports our journey of becoming? What contemplative practices help us live the life we want to be living? What are some ways we...
Spiritual Memoir Worship Series (first service is free)
ONE: In the beginning there is a Story TWO: told around campfires in the desert ONE: shared around tables when bread was broken. TWO: written on pieces of soft leather ONE: then in pages bound together in a book. TWO: (Holding a Bible.) These are our sacred...
Advent Calendar 2017
A special gift for you from the Prayer Bench, an Advent calendar. Each day from December 1 to New Year’s Day, it offers you a practice or gesture for creating hope, peace, joy and love in complicated times. Your Advent calendar is available as a free instant...
Blessing for a Website
After many months of conversation and design, a website is launched. The Rev. Dr. Linda Yates wrote this blessing, and offers it as a model for others looking for a website blessing. Blessing of the Lower and Middle Musquodoboit Website (mvuc.ca) One: Gracious One,...
Praying the News – Sample of Leader Page
A few years ago I was leading a retreat and my eye caught the cover of the bible of a woman sitting next to me. It was a soft covered Good News Bible. A black smudge was ground into the cover. At a quiet time I asked her about it. She looked at It almost like she...
Contemplative Moments
Set of 40 Contemplative Moments These contemplative moment cards invite us to pay attention, be grateful, and aware of the gifts of this moment. All we have is this moment. In this exact moment, something of our life is here to be lived, noticed, or engaged. Each...
The Hours of Christmas (Free Resource)
Make a soul pause on Christmas Day. A free resource, The Hours of Christmas Day.
