Prayers – Sarah Walker Cleaveland

Startle Us Into Delight: A Memorial Day Prayer

May 30, 2021 | Prayers

Imaginative God, when the world was still on the brink of beginning, you gathered clay from the ground and created us...

Feb 25, 2018 | Prayers

Creating and Creative God, We long for your saving power. We hear your promises to Abraham and Sarah, We meet you in...

Dec 24, 2017 | Prayers

Holy God, Shepherd of the Stars, From the very beginning, you have called to us. When the earth was formless and void,...

Sep 24, 2017 | Prayers

Generous God, In the beginning, when the world was still on the edge of beginning, you took the clay of the earth and...

Sep 17, 2017 | Prayers

Holy God, part-er of seas, liberator of captives, forgiver of all, We tell the old, old stories, passing them down...

Feb 28, 2016 | Prayers

Source of all light, Genesis of the morning, God of our lives … For the gift of this new day, we give you thanks For a...

Feb 21, 2016 | Prayers

Waiting, patient, seeking God— these do not feel like days in which it is easy to sit and be still. No longer winter,...

Feb 16, 2016 | Prayers

God of new beginnings and winter days, as we emerge from the tunnel of sorrow and grief— both our own and that of...

Feb 10, 2016 | Prayers

You, O God, are the God of life. When the world was not yet, when the earth was just a formless void, and darkness...

Jan 31, 2016 | Prayers

God of wonder & mystery— God beyond all praising— you have gathered us from near & far, summoning us away from...

Feb 1, 2006 | Prayers

May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep...

Apr 19, 2005 | Prayers

There are some prayers I continually return to, this is one of them: God of unceasing change hear the gasps of those...