A Prayer for Courage to Remember and Witness Liberator and Lover of Freedom to Be Whole and Enough, may we learn and lean into the courage to remember history as it happened, to bear witness to the harm and to the hopes, to the imperfect people making sometimes, often, horrific...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer for Asking for What We Need Hello, just me over here. Yup, me again. Still asking. Yes, I am still asking for what I need. I have noticed the differences between my desires, my wants, and my needs. Yes, and I really do need. I have gathered my...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer for Rest Gracious Love, may we rest. May we have spaciousness to rest in dappled or deep shade on a hot day, with a nice breeze, and on a cool day in a pool of warming sun. May we have spaciousness to rest from persistent violence and aggressions...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer for Mothers' Day 2023 Mother-Parent of All, we give thanks for this day and for being birthed into being in our amazing diversity of expression, culture, movement, perception, thinking, reverence, and feelings. There are so many ways of being a person and we all come to being a...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer For Abundant, Imperfect Enoughness, Week of May 8, 2023 Lover of Imperfection, Still-Becoming, Not-Yet, Still-Enough, hold us and encourage us to hold each other tenderly, questioning the sources and power accrual behind expectations to do more than we have energy to do, to not experience illness, impairment, or...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer to Widen Our Circle of Care Heart of Compassion, may we learn, day by day, moment by moment, how to widen our circles of care, as we begin with the coil of sweetgrass wrapped around itself in the centre, and build that circle outward, to create a mat,...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer for Nurturing an Earth Economy - Earth Day 2023 Honey of the Rock, we’re searching for sweetness amid so much catastrophe and change. We’re searching for refuge, for protection, for assurance that we will all be all right. Honey in the Rock, Shelter and Refuge, Rock of Our...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer for Connecting Deeply with Earth Rock of Our Hearts, connect us deeply to the earth wherever we live, wherever we are migrating, wherever we are exiled, wherever we travel, wherever we are. Connect us deeply to the earth, so we learn the ways of the land as it...
Rev. Naomi King
A Prayer For Dreaming the World Made Whole: Community Shelter, Refuge, and Home of the Displaced and Dispossessed, the Exiled and the Ones Who Shall Not and Have Not Been Relocated, invite us to dream a world and then work each to create it, to converse together and try stuff...
Rev. Naomi King
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