a blessing for the resilient
Blessed are you who are tired of feeling grateful all of the time. who feel more comfortable with moments of rage and negativity and venting all that you lost. Blessed are you when you say, hand on your heart, That there are truths you wish you could unlearn Riches you wish you could get back…
Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor
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If you find yourself reimagining what your faith looks like now or have felt that sting of unbelonging, we’ve curated this support guide with you in mind.
a blessing for life after a loss
Blessed are we, who feel the wound of fresh loss.Or of a loss… no matter how fresh… that still makes our voices crack all these years later.We who are stuck in the impossibility of it. Frozen in disbelief.How can this be? It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Blessed are we, fumbling around for easy…
a blessing for palm sunday
“Blessed are those who have learnedto walk in the light of your presence.”—Psalm 89:15, Oh God, you are interrupting us with eternity once again.Open our hearts and minds and eyes and ears to hear what you have to teach us. On this Palm Sunday, time is marked as one small donkeyplods toward Jerusalem,One with a…
a blessing for easter Sunday
“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week… Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”—John 20:19, ESV Oh God, we stretch out our hands to you in this early Easter darkness.We need you to pull us up and set us on our feet again,for…
a blessing for when you might not know how to pray (or want to)
Blessed are you in this terrible, wonderful now. Fumbling around for the right words. You need so much and it seems impossible to say at all. Blessed are you for whom prayer feels hopeless, disappointing, futile. Blessed are you in your radical honesty, in the ways you speak of your grief. The long, sleepless nights…
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