by Federated Church East Arlington | Feb 20, 2021 | prayers
The season of Lent has arrived, Almighty One. For some during this almost year-long pandemic, it feels like Lent never ended last year. So many losses and lives upended. May we not lose sight of the stories of illness and death as well as those of lovingkindness...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Feb 10, 2021 | prayers
Harsh beauty is the very definition of winter. Holy One, so much of life is that way – a delicate balance between the painful and the profound. None of us is promised a life of ease and still we know there are wonders to behold even amidst the most difficult...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Feb 6, 2021 | prayers, Uncategorized
Here we are in the middle – the middle of a pandemic, the middle of winter, the middle of the first week of a new month, Loving God. The status of being in the middle means we find ourselves surrounded by a range of emotions and news and commentary and...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 29, 2021 | prayers
Winter in this part of your creation, Holy One, is a time of snow cover and melting – over and over again. There is the beauty of freshly fallen snow before vehicles and feet move over it, leaving salt and sand in their wake, to make a path through it all. ...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 13, 2021 | prayers
As COVID numbers of deaths and those sickened climb and tensions rise on the approach to Inauguration Day, it is easy to slip into despair. And yet, there are still always glimmers of hope and love, sometimes lurking on the edges of our days. They can come in a...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 7, 2021 | prayers
Epiphany has arrived and we recall the story of the wise ones, who after finding Jesus, followed the revelation of a dream and went home by another way. Almighty One, what dreams are worth changing the course of our lives for? Could they be dreams for peace that...
