Prayers

Prayer for Dreaming A World Made Whole with Housing Justice Lover of the Birds who have their nests, Lover of the Foxes who have their dens, Lover of the Octopus who has its crevices in the sea, help us dream of a world where we have housing justice, where all... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Dreaming A World Made Whole By Food Justice - Week of March 12, 2023 Lover of Dreaming, dream with us a world made whole with food justice, where no one hungers and no one thirsts from lack of access to quality food and clean water, where we... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Dreaming A World Made Whole With Gender Justice for week of March 6, 2023 Lover of Dreaming, dream with us a world made whole with gender justice, a world in which a multitude of experiences, understandings and expressions of gender can be honored, and experienced as non-competing... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Dreaming A World Made Whole with Climate Justice Hello, Beloved, help us make today a better day by choosing climate justice over expedience, by choosing creating room for those in need of refuge, displaced by drought, floods, fires, climate-fueled storms, rising seas, by choosing to bear witness... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Dreaming a World Made Whole - Ash Wednesday, 2023 Lover of Ordinary People and Ordinary Abundant Blessings, may we join You in dreaming a world repaired and healed and full of justice and joy, not just for a few, but for everyone in every land and every... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Courageous Hopes Dreamer of Courage, cloak us in blessed darkness to nurture our hopes for a world of greater equity, a world where economies are adapting to mitigating climate change rather than accelerating it, a world where we treat each other and this earth with dignity and... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Courageous Love Love whisper in our hearts, to help us hold on through trials and tribulations. Love whisper in our hearts and call us back to our essential wholeness, our essential generosity, our essential joy, our essential gifts to bless this world. Love sing to and rock... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Body Love and Respect Lover of Bodies, Lover of variations, differences, disabilities, spectrums, ranges, distinctions, divergences, deviations, adaptations, and contrasting characteristics, You show up every day inviting us to thrive in these bodies, to make our homes in these bodies, to respect each other in our dissimilar... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer of Responsibility - Week of January 30, 2023 Wisdom, may we first acknowledge that sometimes responsibility is not fun. Also, sometimes it is. Sometimes responsibility leads to wonderful relationships and meaningful effort. And sometimes responsibility leads to boring and tedious tasks. So, Wisdom, you understand when maybe there are... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer of Choosing Love - Week of January 22, 2023 Courageous Grace, may we notice our choices in how and whether we love, that love is not some place we can send a postcard from, but a verb, to be renewed everyday by our doing. Love is a feeling, nourishing... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer for Nurturing Community - Week of January 15, 2023 Beloved, what does it take to nourish, every day, just and healing, thriving diverse communities? May we take up these tools, develop these skills, devote ourselves to these tasks with courage and with joy that we can choose to nourish... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer of Reckoning with History - Week of January 8, 2023 Wisdom, may we have the strength, courage, and curiosity to examine our heritages, histories of harm and histories of healing, and attend to which stories we choose cause harm or healing or other effects here and now and in... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer for the Week of January 1, 2023 - A Prayer of Self-Acceptance Grace and Compassion, may we love and accept ourselves as we are and as we may change. May we love and accept ourselves as we are, with the seeds of growth for responsibility, care, peacemaking, joy, justice... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer for Week of December 26, 2022 - Prayer for Playfulness Gracious Playfulness invite us into relaxation and the creative life, where we imagine possibilities and problem solve, try on ways of being and try out new dances, get silly and lift one another up with generous joy. May we... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer for the Week of December 19, 2022 - Prayer for the Earth Wisdom, as we turn toward the solstices, those halfway points between equinoxes, the deepening of winter or summer, depending on the hemisphere in which we live, may we pay extra attention to our climate choices and how... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer for the Week of December 12 - Prayer for Forbearance Gracious Love, grant us forbearance so we may offer ourselves and each other spaciousness to turn again in awareness and responsibility and to make amends. May we make space for ourselves when we’re irritable and stressed, space to rest,... Rev. Naomi King

Prayer for the Week of December 6, 2022 - Prayer for Generosity Gracious Wonderment, may we find ourselves amid life’s abundant worries, cares, and griefs aware of the choices we have in those moments for generosity to others, to listen or attend deeply to another’s worries, to lessen another’s cares,... Rev. Naomi King