The Season of Lent

This Lenten season let us look for the joy.

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A Prayer for a New Week

Another Monday, another fresh week, another opportunity to live right here right now.

A Prayer For A Restful Weekend

The past few weeks have been hard and rest, joy, and play have felt less present because of my constant worry of work. This weekend I am confessing that I struggle with letting rest and play be top priorities and in confessing I invite the God of sabbath to teach me another way.

Tuesday Morning Joys

I get so in my head and so focused on one or two things that I forget to live inside of my body and to be present where I am. When I get like this I get stuck and live even more in my head than in my body and real life. I am trying to find things that help and reflecting on my joys truly does.

Tea On The Hard Days

Sometimes the things most sacred to us have everything to do with our religion or religious practices or nothing to do with them—or even somewhere in between. Tea is one of my sacred practices and its somewhere in between.

All Kinds of Joy

Just a list of some Tuesday joys—all kinds of them!

A Prayer for A Better Week

Last week was not my week—I pray that this week might be better. So here is a prayer to start off this week.

St. Patrick’s Day Joys

This lenten practice is challenging me in a way I need and invites me to show up for myself and to look for where God has met me throughout the day.

A Good Day

In the face of such suffering--looking for the joy in the world seems like absolute foolishness. And yet, my heart and mind and soul needs the joy to be able to continue on this journey.

God Found Me

Today, God met me right where I was at and at the precisely right time. I let myself be held and for that I am grateful.

Weekend Joys

I was having so much fun with friends this weekend that I forgot to share! Here is a little recap of my weekend joys. I hope you might be able to get a sprinkle ice cream cone soon!

 

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A Prayer for a New Week

Another Monday, another fresh week, another opportunity to live right here right now.

Lord, you know how unfair we are to Mondays. You know our disdain for the beginning of a fresh new week. Monday often seem to be our enemy. We love our time at home, or away on vacations, our time away from the everyday grudge that is a week of work. For those of us who work a normal Monday-Friday schedule—you, O Lord, know, Monday’s serve as a reminder that we are back to work, work, work.  

Help us to not be so harsh on Mondays. Help us to realize the gift that they are and to really live into our lives—for all that happens throughout our week is just as much a part of our life as our weekends, our time off. Help us to see the joy that is in a fresh new day and a fresh new week. Help us to come to Mondays and the new week ahead of us refreshed, renewed, and rested. Help us to meet Mondays as an old and dearly beloved friend.  

God, for this Monday, we pray that you will be right here in it with us. We pray that you unveil joy in the most unlikely of places and the most likely of places. We pray delight be before us, behind us, and right alongside us.

Bless us this Monday and all the days of this week so we might be able to do the work you created and called us to do.  

Today is Monday and we rejoice for you O Lord are truly here.

Amen.

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