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Evening Prayer – February 11

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 11, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade As the sun disappears behind the heavy clouds, our prayers of thanksgiving rise to you, Loving God. Looking heavenward, our hearts teem with abundant gratitude for even the smallest things which, in our haste, we may have […]

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Evening Prayer – February 10

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 10, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade As you have etched your signature in holy shades of light and dark across the sky above us, you have engraved your name upon every living part of your creation. Even as you answer to many names, […]

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Evening Prayer – February 9

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 9, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Your evening sky, Creator of Rest, becomes the color of silt and we anticipate the silent grandeur with which you close each of our days. As we gaze at your soft glory, let us enter the closet […]

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Evening Prayer – February 8

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 8, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Evening Host, you call us with slashes of orange light seeping through the darkening horizon; your invitation beckons us home again into the enfolding freedom from our daily routine. Here in this calm closing, you offer […]

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Evening Prayer – February 4

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 4, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Waiting One, we come humbly before you as the shadows grow deeper, for we have struggled today and confess our thoughts and deeds have been less than our best; and here in the quiet hours, we feel […]

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Evening Prayer – February 3

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 3, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Calm Beyond the Sunset, you have designed this shimmering day and extended it to us freely through your grace. And now the evening wind picks up and breathtaking shadows lengthen across the fields; this is another […]

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Evening Prayer – February 2

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 2, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Gift-Giving God, you are pouring your quiet darkness over another full and often-disordered day, telling us it is time to slow our pace and put away the tools of our trade. Empty our hands and hearts that […]

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Evening Prayer – February 1

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 1, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord. (Ps 27:14) O Great Silence, you live beyond the realm of words, in that space we rarely […]

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Turning conversation into change

When Pat Bellingrath and Celia Ferguson met in conversation about the conviction they felt surrounding the treatment of Black community members in 2016, they never imagined their dream to do justice work across their church conference would come true.  Now, the pair, along with 20 other program planners, will host a four-week Sacred Conversations on […]

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Evening Prayer – January 28

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family January 28, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Ah, Lord, you have brought us safely once again to the edge of twilight, where we must confess we are an absent-minded people. Even today we failed to notice your song delivered by the bird on the […]

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