Evening Prayer: Loving God, we welcome this time of day and its invitation to slow down -
• slow down our fretting
• slow down our overthinking
• slow down our controlling
• slow down our producing
Help us to slow into the evening and welcome its rest, peace, and quiet. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, we awaken to the gift of a new day and we have choices we can make...
• we can choose to complain or create
• we can choose gratitude or grumbling
• we can choose reconciliation or resentment
• we can choose empathy or apathy
Help us choose.
Amen

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we pray that the presence we have left at the end of this day has been one of hope and encouragement. We pray that Your grace will be with those still dealing with personal struggles. May we rest in Your peace, love, and grace this evening. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace go with us this week into our appointments, conversations, meetings, and responsibilities. May Your grace be with those facing challenges and decisions and hard moments. May we look to You for wisdom, Light, and needed guidance. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we welcome Your guidance as we begin a new week. We welcome Your strengthening grace as we begin a new week. We welcome Your Presence as we move into the planned and the unplanned. Help us through the moments that test our trust and try our faith. Amen.

Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, we offer Light and Love today for our world and its brokenness, pain, and groaning from conflict and war. We offer Light and Love for those facing challenges and pray wisdom and grace for their future. In all things be our Guide and Light. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your assurance be with those who feel very unsure about life and their future this evening. May they be assured of Your love, guidance, provision, and care. May they know that You are with them and Your grace goes before them. Grant them rest. Amen.

Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, we welcome this day and its moments. May we see each moment embraced in Your love and Presence. May the ordinary be infused with the sacred. May we recognize Your Presence and wisdom along the way and keep open the eyes of our heart to You ways. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we offer gratitude for bringing us through this day. We give thanks for the caring of friends. We give thanks for the certainty of Your Light and love in our uncertain world. We give thanks for the promise of Your peace. We give thanks for You. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we offer gratitude for bringing us through this day. We ask that Your grace be with those who carry the weight of their burdens into the night. Grant them peace and may You grant us the rest that we need. May Your grace be with Your creation. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, help us to live this day with eyes to see, ears to hear, and minds to understand Your intentions and will as we inhabit the places of our daily schedule. May we notice Your Presence in the midst of the ordinary and may we be in alignment with You. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace be with those who end this day feeling tired, weary, and anxious about the future. May Your grace be with those facing an uncertain future and are unsure about their next steps. May we experience the embrace of Your strong love. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we hold this day as a gift with the awareness that we have the ability to choose how to live it, how to steward it, and how to respond to all that happens. Help us to choose well and to hold life as a gift to be received and lived with wisdom. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for those conversations and interactions and moments today that stretched us to our growing edge. May we not grow comfortable in just staying the same but be open to expanding our souls in the direction of love, mercy, and justice. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, ground us today in Your love, peace, mercy, and justice. May we be mindful of our allegiance to Your kingdom and ways and live into them faithfully. May we be humble as we bear witness to Your ways but also courageous in speaking truth to power. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, as this day closes may the clutter in our soul dissipate and may a spaciousness be created. Help us to sort through what we need to let go of and what we need to embrace. May Your indwelling Presence ground us deeply in Your love and guidance. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we live this new week fully alive..
• fully alive with Your peace
• fully alive with Your mercy
• fully alive with Your love
• fully alive with Your goodness
• fully alive with Your grace
May we live out our Best Self and best intentions.
Amen

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your graces grant us what our condition most needs...
• peace of mind
• strength of soul
• clarity of thought
• assurance of heart
• depth of purpose
• confidence of intention
Grant us rest this night in preparation for tomorrow.
Amen

Morning Prayer; Loving God, may we discover that after doubt and disillusionment there is the possibility of discovering a new and real faith, a faith that speaks to our condition and opens our eyes to Your reality. May we hold our doubts as sacred openings for discovery. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your peace calm our fears tonight. May Your grace encourage our hearts. May Your mercy tender our sometimes cynical soul. May Your compassion reveal itself to us and show forth in our actions. May we be Your Light and love in Your world. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we trust that even in the midst of our doubts and disillusionment, You are present and with us. We are grateful that You seek us out and You come to us in our confusion and doubts. May we be open to the reality of Your Living Presence. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, on this night we give thanks and celebrate the safe return of four astronauts. We celebrate human ingenuity and science that makes it possible. Help us, now, to take this ingenuity, courage, and imagination and create with You and world in peace. Amen.

Apparently right after splashdown Artemis II received communications from an unknown number and when they responded they were asked about an extended warranty. Welcome home!

Leaning into Your Growing Edge “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”

Leaning into Your Growing Edge open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Look well to the growing edge...

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we be open to Your Living Presence as we go through this day. May Your Living Presence speak to our condition and grant us the courage, faith, and hope we need in the midst of our schedule. May we know that we are not doing this day alone. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for Your grace that sustained us through this day and encouraged us when we were weary. We give thanks for those moments of inward aliveness and energy that connected us with Your Presence and reminded us that we're not alone. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your Spirit grant us the courage and strength to live from a place of possibility rather than pathology. Help us to see the vision of what could be rather than focusing on what isn't. Transform us inwardly so we can bring change outwardly. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may the despair we often feel about our world not get in the way of our dreaming of a better world. May Your Dream for creation be our dream for creation. Grant us Your Spirit that energizes our spirits and infuses our soul with wisdom and Light. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and us in our...
• actions and presence
• words and conversation
• responses and reactions
• relationships and connections
May we be the peace in our hearts that we seek in the world. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your dream of a peaceful and flourishing world not get lost in the arrogance of the powers and the anxiousness of the world. May Your peace prevail and may we be Your peacebuilders through our presence and daily actions. Let there be peace. Amen.