Sunflowers: Pronouncing a Blessing

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...
Soul Songs: Psalm 118

Soul Songs: Psalm 118

LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 118 Set Your Face Toward the Riot  And on this path the gates are opening wide — Psalm 118 Read Psalm 118: 1,2 -19-29 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked...
Soul Songs: Psalm 130

Soul Songs: Psalm 130

LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 130 Tending the Grief  “My whole being waits for you, my God, listening for your Presence.” — Psalm 130:4 Read Psalm 130 What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as you pray this Psalm? When life is hard and you...
Pam & Tilley Day 1

Pam & Tilley Day 1

Pam Harrison, a friend of the Prayer Bench, is spending the winter in Olhos da Agua, Portugal. She wonders how she will live in an area of the world that is the hub of coronavirus. “As of yesterday things sure changed!! The news and social media are so scary but...
Soul Songs: Psalm 95

Soul Songs: Psalm 95

LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 95 Holding in Care  “God holds in care the earth we walk upon, from its deep caverns, to mountain summits which meet the sky.”  -Psalm 95 Read Psalm 95  What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to...
Inside Prayer

Inside Prayer

Inside Prayer “Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and went up the mountain to pray.” I was fortunate to visit the place where, by tradition, this story may have taken place, Mount Tabor in Galilee. We didn’t walk up the mountain. We drove. As we wound our...
Contemplative Moments

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...
Re-Imagining

Re-Imagining

As often happens, I was looking for something else when I discovered Andy Warhol’s visual re-imagining of The Last Supper. His work on this theme were among the last of his visual art career.             Leonardo Da Vinci’s...