O God!

The cosmos contains approximately 100-200 billion galaxies

O God of imagination.

O God un-pondered.

O God in searching more than certainty.

O God sorely exploited.

O God poorly invoked.

O God who begins with light.

O God whose creation is play.

O God who has made us spiritual beings.

O God of flowers, fish and color-shock. 

O God whose gift is scent and texture.

O God of seasons and twice-a-day tides.

O God of our beginning again and again.

O God of our material and inner eyes.

O God of the heart's secrets.

O God who knows who and where I am.

O God who walks a path with us.

O God who gives the bees and birds their stripe.

O God who delights in beauty.

O God in our aloneness.

O God in inner tempest.

O God in our tragic mistakes.

O God in our wound.

O God in the tears of our laughter and sorrow.

O God in dawn and dusk.

O God of traveling clouds, galaxies and exoplanets.

O God of the Aspen's smooth bark; the Linden's rough.

O God of Pine needle and Maple leaf.

O God of sun ray, moon beam and lightning flash.

O God who sounds the wind and rain.

O God of surf on sand.

O God of tubers, roots and rhizomes.

O God of buds, berries, seeds and nuts.

O God three-personal family.

O God creating with a heartbeat.

O God safekeeping us by love.

O God greening us into wholeness.

Intercessions ~ Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Early in the new month of August,/ we pray for the health and joy of those who celebrate birthdays,/ anniversaries and other days of remembrance./ For the safety of summer travelers and vacationers./ We pray to the Lord.

Pope Francis has returned to Rome from his Penitential Pilgrimage to Canada./ As with the priest sex abuse scandal,/ there is much work to be done beyond saying, "I'm sorry."/ May the work of healing and reconciliation be spirit blessed./ Through it all, may the church learn humility,/ compassion and God's wisdom./ We pray to the Lord.

Sometimes there is too little or no rain and the living things die./ At other times there is too much rain and floods bring destruction and death./ We pray for a world that is often out of balance./ And for ourselves,/ born a second time in Baptism water;/ may we be truly alive in learning the mind of Christ./ We pray to the Lord.

August begins remembering the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki./ There are Japanese persons who are still alive/ having struggled with injury and trauma ever since./  What marvelous things human beings can do — witness the pictures sent back from space by the Webb telescope./ May we learn to live on this planet peacefully,/ in solidarity with each other as God's children./ We pray to the Lord.

The terrible and sad invasion of Ukraine drags on./ And around the globe,/ other awful wars are taking place of which we are unaware./ May those who create wars learn God's good sense/ and be healed of greed,/ power quest/ and even insanity./ We pray to the Lord.

We pray for our own families where there is sickness,/ wound,/ resentment,/ fracture,/ money or emotional trouble./ Bless the children of our families,/ and children and young people everywhere./ We pray to the Lord.

Silver Rosary ~ Passed on, Polished up, Prayed with

 

I received an antique silver rosary in the mail recently from someone who asked for me to re-home this extra. As  you can see, this rosary is quite lovely and so I polished it up and thought you might like to pray the first decade with me as its purpose is restored. Here are little thought-mediations we might focus on between the first ten Hail Mary's.

Our Father

May the world's children be welcomed, cherished and loved. 

Hail Mary

May we understand "pro-life" in ever expanding and encompassing ways — making us a church which upholds life through justice.

Hail Mary

For fire fighters and flood rescuers. May we learn to love and protect our planet — the water, the air, the soil, the plants and animals.

Hail Mary

For Pope Francis to be blessed with strength and health as he returns to Rome from his Penitential Pilgrimage to Canada where he set out to reconcile and heal the wounds Christians inflicted on indigenous peoples. May the Church be healed wherever it has sponsored terrible actions done in the name of Jesus.

Hail Mary

Wars only bring death, fear, wound and waste. May the war makers be blessed with true sight — Christ's sight. For those whose lives are changed forever by war.

Hail Mary

For the wellbeing of family and friends. Asking for gifts of health and healing where there is dysfunction, addiction, depression or sickness.

Hail Mary

May we be real disciples — not confusing the mind of Christ with ideologies of arrogance and power.

Hail Mary

May we be an inclusive people —putting away any us vs them thinking. May we see no one — no  group — as other.

Hail Mary

Make us to be children of light — dispelling ignorance and pettiness. May we learn humility and compassion.

Hail Mary

There is a consistory in Rome later this month in which twenty-one new cardinals will be created. One of them is a Christian dalit (untouchable) from India. Even though this caste system has been outlawed, its categorizing of people endures. For the many people around the world who feel unseen, unheard, unloved.

Hail Mary

Glory be to the Father...