Evening Prayer: Loving God, as we prepare for weather-related storms, we're reminded of those who are experiencing emotional storms inwardly - storms of fear, storms of grief, storms of stress, storms of anxiousness. May You be our peace and calm in the midst of our storm. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we bring Your peace into all our encounters today. May Your grace grant us the patience we need for the unfolding of life. May our hearts remain open and tender to the needs in our world. May we respond with compassion and love in all we do. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your healing grace and mercy be with those who struggle this evening with fear, anxiousness, grief, and deep concern. May Your grace and mercy be with our world and heal the places in which it is broken and suffering. Renew our hope and trust. Amen

Morning Prayer: Loving God, help us to live this day fully present to You and fully present to those we encounter. Help us to be present to Your Eternal Now so that we don't get stuck in the past or fixated on the future. May we see value and grace in the present moment. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, let there be peace in our world, and let it begin with me... • in my agitation • in my relationships • in my anxiousness • in my frustrations • in my grudges • in my arrogance • in my cynicism May Your peace be my peace and my rest. Amen

Morning Prayer: Loving God, on this day may we remember that peacebuilding is a journey accomplished one step at a time. May we remember the voices that championed equal rights for all. May we remember the work that is ours to do in lifting up the dignity and value of all. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your peace be our peace. May Your peace begin in our heart and calm our agitation. May Your peace flow through us and into our relationships. May Your peace heal our relationships and bring wholeness to our world. May Your peace heal us all. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we find time to rest today and cease the striving we often engage in on a daily basis. May we rest from overthinking, overfunctioning, and overdoing. Help us to recover our sense of being and humanity that often gets lost in all of our doing. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, hear our prayers this evening for those who carry the weight of concern for their own health and wholeness. Be with those who carry a concern for their own family members and friends. Be with all of us as we hold our worlds pain and suffering. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we always carry within us an openness to Your goodness and mercy. May we be open to Your grace wherever it may come from and however we may experience it. May we be open to Your encouragement and strength in our moments of fear and weariness. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for all those who inspire us to peace and invite us to live as peacebuilders. We welcome Your grace to show us how we can live as peacemakers and do what we can to bring wholeness to the world. Be our peace inwardly and outwardly. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, grant us the grace and energy we need to continue bringing a presence of hope, light, and life to all we do today. May our lives bear witness to Your peace and goodness through our conversations and our actions. Be our living peace in our hearts. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, hear the groanings of Your creation and the groanings of our souls and grant us the grace of Your healing mercies. Heal Your creation. Heal our world. Heal our suffering. May we be faithful co-healers with You through our actions and presence. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, through Your grace, may we bring our Best Self to this day... • our listening self • our understanding self • our courageous self • our resilient self • our compassionate self • our gracious self • our loving self May we radiate life. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for the bridge builders, peacemakers, light-bearers and hope-creators that live among us and bring Light to the world. Help us all to be humble in our conversing with one another and gracious in our sharing with one another. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we bring to this day our Best Selves and our best energy. May we bring to each moment a healing presence. May we bring to each conversation an understanding presence. May we bring to the challenges that arise an open and resilient spirit. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we start the day strong and by the end its easy to give up... • give up hope • give up courage • give up faith • give up peace • give up vision We do know though that Your grace doesn't give up on us and in that we rest and place our trust. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, grant us the strength, Light, wisdom, and courage to live this day. Help us to live it well and to live with resilience when it gets hard. May Your Spirit keep our hearts tender towards one another. Guard our hearts from cynicism and numbness. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we are weary... • weary from holding our worlds pain • weary from waiting for things to change • weary from the battles and struggles • weary from caring and giving May Your grace bring encouragement to our weariness and renewal to our soul. Amen

Morning Prayer: Loving God, grant us the energy we need for this new week with its challenges and opportunities. Strengthen us inwardly so that we are resilient in the moments we most need to be. Grant us Your wisdom and Light for the guidance we will need for our decisions. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, grant us the energy we need for this new week with its challenges and opportunities. Strengthen us inwardly so that we are resilient in the moments we most need to be. Grant us Your wisdom and Light for the guidance we will need for our decisions. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, calm our fears that we carry with us into the evening. May Your peace be our refuge and grant us the rest we need. Be with those who are anxious this evening and comfort them with Your Presence. May our confidence be in You and Your strong care. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we listen deeply today and hear Your Voice amidst all the other voices around us that vie for our attention and allegiance. May we listen to Your Voice with the intention to put into practice what we hear. Help us to be faithful in all ways. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, help us to not forget Your gentle side that cares for our wellbeing, doesn’t demand or demean, and offers us Your tender mercies. May we be gentle with ourselves and not expect more from ourselves than You expect from us. May we rest in Your love. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your peace settle in our hearts today and be with us in our grief, agitation, anxiousness, and uncertainty. May we discover moments of rest and replenishment and remember that You are continually at work in our lives and in Your world. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we pray Your healing grace and mercy might cover Your world in all the places where brokenness, pain, and suffering is present. Help our prayers to be more than words but may they also lead us to the kind of actions that nurtures wholeness. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, be our peace today so that we may be peacebuilders in this day. Be our courage so that we may live courageously in faithfulness to You. Be our Wisdom so that we may discern well. Grant us the energy of Your Spirit so that we may live fully alive. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, in Your grace, guard our hearts from becoming numb and hardened to the needs and pain in our world. Keep our hearts tender towards those who are hurting, fearful, and vulnerable. Keep our hearts open to hope and beauty amidst all that is ugly. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we recognize Your Light within are our lives and may Your Light shine through our actions. May Your Light illuminate all the places in our world that are lost in the darkness of despair. May Your justice, mercy, and goodness shine brightly. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, receive these tears that we may have shed this day... • tears of grief • tears of lament for our country and world • tears of sadness Receive the tears that opened our heart... • tears of tenderness • tears of joy • tears of gratitude Amen

One of the insistent teaching of early Friends is that we cannot simply appropriate the death of Jesus to our own salvation. We take up our own cross and follow him. To participate in his life is to share in his death. Doug Gwyn

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your encouragement be with those who need encouraged through this day. May hope be renewed in those feeling discouraged. May Your grace provide the inward strength needed to meet today's challenges and responsibilities. Be with us in this day. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we leave into Your hands and loving care the events of our day. We let go of all that is unfinished and welcome Your grace that reminds us that unfinished does not equal failure. Help us to rest in the awareness of Your care and persistent love. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, we welcome Your Light to guide us today. May we recognize Your Light in everyone we meet and receive them as ones created in Your image. May Your Light shine through us and radiate Your grace in all the places that need Your Light and wisdom. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we offer to You this night our confusion, our grief, our sadness, and our restlessness. Grant us peace in the places we feel alone and be our comfort in the places we feel afraid. Help us to rest this night and may we feel at rest in Your love. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we begin this new week at the beginning of a new year, may we keep our hearts open to approaching life as a beginner in all ways so that we are continually learning and living on a growing edge. Turn our growing into new beginnings and action. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, as chaos and uncertainty swirls around us and we get caught up in our schedules and responsibilities, help us to maintain that calm center to which we can restore our peace and recover our sense of self amidst all the expectations pressing in. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we awaken to this day, may we awaken to Your Presence that welcomes us as we live this day. May we awaken to your call to love and be builders of peace. May we awaken to Your gifts within us and help to build a better and flourishing world. Amen.

Everyone needs their "fortress of solitude". This is where I get my best thinking and reflecting done at home.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace and mercy be with our world right now and show us another way of being and living. Help us to put aside power and the need to dominate and welcome, instead, the power of loving, serving, reconciling, healing, and peacebuilding. Amen.

Genesis starts with "In the beginning...". The Gospel of John starts with "In the beginning. In Revelation, the Living Christ is understood as the "Beginning and the End"...the spiritual journey is one of "beginnings" that arise from our own personal endings and letting go.

Morning Prayer; Loving God, may Your grace grant us the strength we need for this day. May Your peace prevail in our lives and Your creation. May our hearts remain tender towards hope and resist the temptation towards cynicism. May we all experience Your healing wholeness. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, as we slowly transition back into school and work and our ongoing responsibilities, may we do so with a deeper sense and awareness of Your Presence that embraces our everyday lives and keeps us connected to all that is sacred and full of grace. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, grant us the strength we need for this day...the kind of strength that helps us to be resilient, persevere, and gives us the courage to keep going and showing up. Help us to be patient as the day unfolds. May we respond with grace and be adaptive. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, be with us as this day ends and we rest for the night. Be with those who are lonely and weary from the day. Be with the sick and struggling. Be with those who are recovering and needing encouragement. Be with the grieving. Be our peace. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, more than tuning a calendar over to a new year, may this day invite us to turn out hearts toward You with the intention of living each day fierce with reality, courageous in love, open to adventure, and welcoming each day as it unfolds in grace. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, as we look back we celebrate what has been good, we grieve what we've lost, and we let go of what no longer brings life. As we turn our face towards the new year, we turn our hearts towards Your grace and wisdom. Be our ever-present Companion. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, as this day unfolds, we are reminded that there are seasons in life when we can let go of what has been and open ourselves to what may be. Help us to be open to new beginnings as we let go of old happenings. Grant us wisdom as we reflect today. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, in this "in between" time before a new year and the resuming of school and work and life's routines, we're reminded that our soul sometimes lives in that "in between" space of who we've been and who we're becoming. Show us the way to our becoming. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, help us to get done what we can get done for today, and to let go what doesn't need to get done. Help us to be present to this day and our own lives. May we value presence more than pressing to make things happen and anxiously getting things done. Amen.