Walking in love

This prayer also has music that goes with it which you can hear in my song “Psalm of blessing our bodies” by Ben Johnson Music Factory. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Give us eyes that see our responsibility. Give us ears that hear the warnings of the things that we should truly fear. Give us noses that breathe the holy wind that blows to the tops of the trees. Give us fingers that release all the...

This was inspired by this talk by Sara Groves entitled “Telling the truth with your art” https://youtu.be/ZysL8jzLnNI?si=Lroh0NG7dSHHECcK Transcript: Come, holy Spirit, I lift up coco. I ask for. openness, courage for her, as she looks at. What's happening in her community, in her family, in her own heart, and mind. that she would be open, to reality, to be open, to the things that are good and gr...

This is a beautiful song that is part of my evening ritual when I say good night to my daughter. If you’re looking for a version of the whole song, Sara Groves has a good one. I find this first verse especially to be an excellent prayer of trust and humility. When things are going well, we feel secure, but we see the truth of our helplessness and need for God when “other helpers fail and comforts...

This is inspired by Galatians 5:6. Here it is with verses 4-5 as well for context: “You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith express...

This was inspired by a line from a Björk song. The song is “it’s not up to you” and the line is “I can decide what I give, but it’s not up to me what I get given.” I think it’s a profound insight into our powerlessness over what God or others will give us. I don’t mean that in a bad way, but rather showing that surrender and acceptance is the path to peace, and that our generosity ought to flow fr...

Prayer for yielding today to God Come, Holy Spirit. Help me to let go of my plans for today. Help me to let go of my narrow understanding of what it would look like for today to go well. Help me to let go of any a mindset that we try to force certain outcomes. I ask for the grace of faith and hope. That.... The joy of today is far deeper than any specific good thing or pleasure that could happen i...

This prayer was inspired by this line in a song called “At Your Mercy” by Jess Ray: “What will win in the end: love or questions?” It’s a good question, and this prayer is an expression of desire that, although questions matter and are worthwhile, love is supremely valuable and is what my heart longs for most.

Prayer for awareness and strengthening of weakness (Ignatius rule 14)

Prayer for honest and healthy confiding (Ignatius rule 13)

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Thank you for this time of consolation. which I feel your nearness and your love. I'm filled with desire for you and energy for you. Help me to remember that this is a gift. and be deeply grateful for it. Help me to remember that This particular season of consolation won't last forever, but I will go into a season of desolation, and guide me as to how to prepare for...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Whatever good that you want to accomplish in my life through this desolation.. I. accept it. I embrace it. If there's anything about. me that has been tepid or lazy or negligent, and through my own faults, your spiritual consolation has withdrawn. Show me that. Help me not to be unaware, but to become aware. If you are trying me. to see how much I am, and how much I...

Come Holy Spirit, in this time of desolation, the last thing that I want to do is to be patient. There's part of me that wants to... just sprint and strive to try to Get out of it and get through it. But I ask that you would give me patience. Open my eyes to how patience will help me. Help me to see its beauty and its usefulness. There are times when the desolation feels like... It is just a new n...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, In this desolation. it feels as if you have left me. Help me to remember. Help me to believe. that you are giving me enough grace. to get through this desolation safely. That you are. giving me an opportunity. to trust you in a time when I don't feel you. And that though. The nearness and the power of your grace. does feel like it's gone. That you are still with me. Y...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, Help Betsey to resist this desolation. This heaviness. This feeling that you are far away from her, she is abandoned by you. This lack of affection for you. Help her not to accept it at face value. Help her to remember that.. the enemy is. always trying to twist it. To warp reality, to make you seem like you're not present. And you are. Help her to intensely resist th...

I learned about the Ignatian rules through Timothy Gallagher and I highly recommend him. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Thank you for making me aware. that I am in a time of desolation. Help me to not make. any changes, but to be firm and constant. in the resolutions and the determination. that I had before this desolation started. help me to be. full of faith. To continue to do the things that I...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. You know that sometimes we experience desolation. darkness of soul and disturbance. Movement to things that are low and earthly, and unquiet of different agitations and temptations moving us to lack confidence in you, to lack hope, to lack love, and finding ourselves lazy and and tepid, sad, and as if we were separated from you, our Creator and Lord. Have mercy on us...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Bring your consolation. Move in my soul. cause it to be inflamed with love of you, my Creator and Lord. And may no thing created on the face of the earth seem to be worthy. of my full love, but only you, the one who has created them all. Move me to shed tears. because of love of you. Whether for sorrow for my sins or for the passion of our Lord. or for other things d...

Prayer for growth in holiness (Ignatius rule 2) Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Help me to make progress in my faith. help me to go on intensely, cleansing my sin and rising from good to better in the service of you. When the evil spirit bites and saddens and puts obstacles in my way. and disquietets with false reasons, trying to get me to not go on Help me. I look to you to give me courage and str...

Prayer for freedom from sin (Ignatius rule 1) Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Protect me from being in the grip of imagining sensual delights and pleasures and held by them in a pattern that makes me grow in vice and in sin. When I am in this state, give me the grace to be aware of you speaking to me through my conscience. and through my reason. pricking me. calling me back to you. inviting me to l...

Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to grant us grace to shift our hopes more fully to heavenly hopes and let go of earthly hopes. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I ask for a renewal. Around my desires and my hopes. Help me to put. less of my hope in material possessions, in objects that I want to acquire. Show me what it looks like. to put my hope in you. Show me what it looks like to. put my hope and my de...

This is a prayer version of this beautiful verse of the hymn “Be Thou my vision” Be thou my dignity, thou my delight Be thou my battle-shield, sword for the fight Thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tower Raise thou me heavenward, O power of my power Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, be Dorothy's dignity and be her delight. Be her battle shield and her sword for the fight. Be the shelter of her soul....

Experiencing the love of God is one of the primary things that kindles love in us. Let’s ask for it. Transcript: Come Holy Spirit make the love of God real to Craig. I Pray that you would come to him in your goodness and your beauty in a way that he can understand and in a way that touches his heart. Pour the love of God into his heart. Amen.

This prayer acknowledges that perhaps there are things God wants us to focus on and engage with that we currently are not aware of. Let’s express our openness to his guidance. Help us come to an awareness of what you would have us focus on. We want to be led by you, Holy Spirit. Transcript: Come, holy Spirit if there is anything that you want me to focus on or engage with. that I'm not currently d...

This is a prayer that asks God to guide us in what we persevere in and what we let go of. I know well the path of letting go of the hard things and digging in deeper to the things that feel like they are working. I’m not saying we should always do the opposite, but this prayer expresses that our desire is to follow Gods will, not our own. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit, guide me. Show me which thin...

This was inspired by an audiobook I listened to by Richard Rohr called “the art of letting go” — he has some good observations about how letting go or forgiving or surrendering is a significant part of our faith journey in growing in love for God and others. This is a prayer expressing the desire to let go from whatever God would have us let go of and asking for guidance and courage to do that. Im...