Offering Compline this night for those who took a longer way home just to have a little more time to think.

May God meet you on the road, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who kept the lights on longer than they needed to.

May God meet you in the moment you finally let the dark come, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who are laying down more than just the day.

May God receive what you release, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who felt a little more like themselves today.

May God guard that glimpse, and give you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who are learning to live with unanswered questions.

May God keep you in the waiting, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who moved through the day on instinct alone.

May God bless what carried you, and give you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who are carrying a decision that still feels uncertain.

May God hold you steady, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who felt like a guest in their own life today.

May God bring you home to yourself, and give you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who are tired of starting over.

May God honour every beginning, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who reached the end of the day without a clear sense of what it all meant.

May God keep you in the unknowing, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who are holding a disappointment no one else noticed.

May God be gentle with what aches, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who are letting the day end without getting the last word.

May God hold what remains unsaid, and grant you rest.

Friends, please join me in praying for the repose of the soul of Fr. Denis Geoghegan OCSO of Mount St. Bernard Abbey, who died today.

May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

Offering Compline this night for those who feel like they’re falling behind in their own life.

May God keep pace with you, and grant you rest.

Offering Compline this night for those who did one necessary thing today, and let that be enough.

May God bless what was possible, and grant you rest.

Post–Holy Week power-down button: pressed.

Silence, sleep, and letting everything settle.

Offering Compline this night for those who don’t have the energy to be hopeful, only to be here.

May God honour your staying, and keep watch while you rest.

Holy Week prep for a monk who can’t sew: attempting to repair a habit with absolutely no skill whatsoever.

I belong to the Community of Nazareth. Our spirituality comes largely from the hidden life of Jesus in Nazareth.

I’ll be guest preaching for the Black Isle Charge this coming Monday–Wednesday of Holy Week.

Mass begins at 19:00 each evening—do join us online via the livestream on the Scottish Episcopal Church on the Black Isle Facebook page.

He encouraged me to go to seminary and to follow the path that was drawing me toward the sacraments.

When my grandmother died, he helped me to encounter the gentleness of God in a new way at a time when I badly needed it.

May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

Friends, please join me in prayer for the soul of Rev. Baxter who has died suddenly.

When I was a teenager trying to work out which church I would belong to, he was one of few who took my searching seriously.

He answered many of my early questions about vocation and calling.

Pausing the nightly Compline posts for a little bit while as I focus on getting on top of some health things. I’ll be back when things are steadier.

It’s now less than three months until my Simple Profession of Vows, and I’m starting to send out prayer cards (made to fit in your breviary)!

If you’d like one, add your name and address to this form (forms.gle/uYspjLTe1yCM...) so I don’t miss anyone, and I’ll mail one out to you.

Be assured of my continued prayers for you.

Offering Compline this night for those who barely made it through today and know it.

May God sit beside you in the wreckage, and keep watch while you rest.

You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted.

Offering Compline this night for those who carried a kindness today that no one noticed.

May God remember it, and grant you rest.

Sung Compline by candlelight at the Cathedral this evening after a hard appointment, followed by a decaf oat iced vanilla latte.

As close to heaven as one can get of an evening.

Offering Compline this night for those who chose patience today when impatience would have been easier.

May God honour the restraint, and grant you rest.