BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family August 25, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O One Who Calls, we heard Jesus say, “Take up your cross and follow me.” These are not words we particularly want to hear, and we wonder just what our own particular cross might be. Could […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family August 24, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Beauty of Holiness, we are a tense people, eagerly answering the world’s cry for productivity. But you stop us in our tracks with the startling beauty you have sown around us. Lead us to touch […]
It’s Tuesday – in my opinion, the most challenging day of the week. There is nothing wrong with Tuesdays at all. But they often leave me feeling overwhelmed.
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family August 20, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Heart of Heaven, you knew us and blessed us when we rested in our mother’s peaceful womb. Through that soothing regularity of heartbeat, you were early teaching us the language of calm, preparing us for Jesus, […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family August 19, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Come down, O Love Divine, seek thou this soul of mine and visit it with thine own ardor glowing; O Comforter draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing. Creator of […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family August 18, 2020 Rev. Jan Buxton Wade Most of the time you seem so silent, Unknowable One. We sit beneath faint clouds in the sky and speak to you. Our prayers seem to echo out into the valley of nowhere. “Where are you?” we […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family August 17, 2020 Gathering God, we remain the church united, even as we pray from different locations, for we are connected by something more wondrous than the technology we employ. Your Spirit rests over us, filling us with hope and vision even in an […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family August 13, 2020 Pastor Jan O Quiet Friend, we often feel that we fail at prayer, for our words are never adequate, our phrasing clumsy, and our descriptors fall short of what we want to say. Still, you meet us where we are, […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family August 12, 2020 Pastor Jan Loving Prompter, we confess we are absent-minded folk who rush past the multi-colored treasures you have hidden here and there among the varied corners of the day. Your tender beauty calls to us from the hush of the […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family August 11, 2020 Pastor Jan Loving One, when we behold this day that you have made, there are simply no words that capture what you entrust to us in the sheer bliss of morning. Especially in the wee hours, your holiness hovers closely […]
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