Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Once upon a time, except it really happened, I was standing in a church office as the pastor returned fuming mad after lunch. A member of the congregation had just lit into him for changing the Lord’s Prayer the Sunday prior. The congregation had “always” used the version with “trespasses” and he had switched the bulletin to the version that used “sins” instead.

I realized I haven’t been “worshipping” in the way I feel I needed to…in a way that is present and vulnerable, in a way that reminds me I am there to give thanks and praise. I’ve been busy, diligent, managing technology mishaps and weather. I am not one bit upset by this and I wouldn’t change it - I actually debated writing this because I don’t dare come across as upset or complaining…instead, I write this to process my experience and emotions from this week. Perhaps others have similar experiences.

If you’ve ever been in a toxic or unhealthy relationship, perhaps you understand what it means to “guard your heart.” You limit your time and energy with that person. If you’re feeling the toxicity of the election and polarization of our country, then perhaps you are guarding your heart against social media during this time. Our minds naturally create space to protect us from those things that hurt us. Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health.

Prayer breathing is a spiritual discipline thought to be born out of Psalm 150, as best I can tell. The monks in the 5th century took the final verse of the final Psalm to heart and created a method of praying with each breath in and each breath out. Have you heard the saying, “there are no new original ideas any more?” Quilt patterns certainly fall into this category at times. I imagine prayer breathing falls into that same reality. So, for purposes of teaching the practice here, let’s set a foundation.