Prayer

Prayers.

Prayers for family, loved ones, friends.

Prayers for our departed loved ones.

Prayers for the homeless, hungry, starving, displaced, incarcerated, mentally ill, sick, dying, institutionalized, marginalized, victims of hatred and racism and violence, the war-torn, and broken – all the least of Jesus’ siblings.

Prayers for an end to corruption, grift, propaganda, fascism, war, and injustice.

Prayers for righteous judgement on wicked leaders.

Prayers for renewed stewardship, environmental justice, the plight of creatures of all sorts and the environments in which they subsist.

Prayers for unity in the ecclesia.

Prayers for neighbors and enemies.

Prayers for all to come to know a touch of ineffable divine love and grace.

Prayers for peace, justice, reconciliation.

Prayers for forgiveness, mercy, and cleansing.

Prayers for wisdom and understanding, for insight and guidance.

Prayers of thanksgiving for each person, each blessing, each bit of sustainability, each birdsong and sweet fragrance; prayers of thanksgiving for every touch of grace.

Prayers of lament, outpourings of grief

Prayers that are more the shouts of defiance, the rantings against injustice

Prayers, soft and tender, bold and loud

Prayers, articulated and ineffable

Prayers accompanied with joy and sorrow, laughter and tears

Prayers without answers, lost in clouds of unknowing

Silent prayers, sitting with Jesus

Prayers to God

Do we pray for God?

God, glorious, high, exalted, almighty, omnipresent, creator, redeemer, sustainer, alpha and omega, origin and teleios, king of glory

God the holy one, too brilliant to even look upon

What can I give to such a God?

God lacks nothing

God wants something –

My love, my being, my presence

Not because God is lonely

Eternal Trinitarian perichoresis

Spills over

God’s cup overflows

Douses, splashes, immerses me

Baptizes me, engulfs me, fills and drenches me

God who is love longs for beings who want to be loved

Who choose to allow themselves to be loved

Thoroughly, unconditionally, warts and all

Prayers

Expand my heart, O Lord, to be able to receive

More and more of

Your love