FEATHER: Creator God, we the children of your creation lift our thanksgiving for your wondrous hand in making all things new through the signs of the season. We thank you for the beauty in the blanketing snow, and the cold air which causes us to draw close to our loved ones.
FEATHER: Almighty, today we the children of your creation lift our prayers of thanksgiving, for your faithfulness, grace and mercy. In our brokenness we see only as deep as the mirror before us allows.
FEATHER: Almighty God, we the children of your creation bless you for this new day and the time needed to do all that we are called to do.
Almighty one, today we lift our prayer of thanksgiving to you for the blessings and gifts seen and unseen. We thank you for the sun which courses across the sky to remind us of the precious moments that we are granted this day and every day. Grant us the wisdom and vision to see these days and moments as the true gifts that they are, guard us from being distracted by the busyness of the day and the work before us, that we might see the other beside us and you who goes with us. Bless us this day to be a blessing to others, open our hearts to go forth in love as you have called and loved us first. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
FEATHER: Almighty God, Creator of all, today we give thanks and praise for the gift of your Holy Spirit, who guides and strengthens your children of faith. Your Spirit walks with us, in this season of new life and your promise revealed.
FEATHER: Almighty, Creator God, we the children of your creation lift our prayers of thanksgiving for the continued presence of your Spirit in all things around us; we thank you for the change of seasons and the warming winds which caress our faces.
FEATHER: Almighty, we the children of your creation lift up to you our hearts, voices and needs. Hear us as we walk these uncertain days,
In my travels, I always say to the communities, “Pray for your bishop; love, support and bless them in their ministry. In this you are doing God’s calling.” This spring there will be four diocesan episcopal elections—in Saskatoon, Moosonee, the Arctic and Rupert’s Land—as well as the election of a new suffragan bishop in the diocese of Montreal. This means that there will be, God willing in all things, five new members added to the church’s House of Bishops. Being a leader is no easy feat at the best of times, and we the people need to remember that in such a critical and vocal age. Bishops and other leaders of the church are called by the Almighty and community to be prayerful rallying voices and stalwart guides for the faithful—not to be set on a pedestal, but to walk with the people in healing and blessing.
February brings to mind the wind-driven ice crystals as they flow across the hard-packed snow. There is a special sound that is made when it does, and so “Wind Clearing Moon” is an appropriate name for this month, calling to mind the wind moving through the trees, blowing the frost off the branches, polishing the exposed ice on the creeks and lakes—and the wind of change reshaping the landscape of our ministry, clearing the way for change.
FEATHER (prayer ascending): Almighty One, the new year stands before us, uncertain as the day ahead. Open our hearts and eyes to know with humility
FEATHER (Prayer): Almighty One, Creator, we the children of your creation pause and slow down in the snowy season, wherein even the light of day
Almighty, today we the children of your creation gather in humility and wonder at your hand in creation and with us in our journey of life and faith. We lift our prayers of thanksgiving for blessings seen and unseen. Forgive us where we have failed and offended, lift us to be renewed in our call and ministry, strengthen and embolden us to not only proclaim, but to live out our faith for all to see, that your grace and mercy might flow out over the land and to all peoples.
FEATHER (Prayer): Creator God, we the children of your creation lift the prayer feather of Thanksgiving. In this season that you have so freely gifted,
FEATHER (Prayer): Creator of all, the seasons stand to glorify your name through every passing moment and all creation lifts up thanksgiving for your handiwork.
Creator God, we the children of your creation lift our prayer for those whose voices have been silenced, for those lost to the struggles of change and control, for the peoples suppressed for just existing. We pray to you and lift up to you our relatives in the Indigenous circles across the land: the many caught up in the Sixties Scoop; the survivors—or conquerors, you could also call them, because they were undefeated—of the Indian residential schools, industrial schools and day schools. We pray for those who keep going, despite the legacy of the processes of assimilation and the resultant effects. We pray for those searching for lost family and identity, the wounded, rejected and broken.
Feather (prayer): Creator God, we the children of your creation stand humbled as your grace is revealed before us, in the change of seasons and the promise in your Word given. Forgive us as we have failed you and Creation by losing sight of you and straying from the good road. Grant us courage to meet this day with open hearts that we can speak truthfully and go forward with bravery, knowing that your guiding hand and strength are with us. Bless us that we might be a blessing to others. In Jesus we pray. Amen.
Creator God, we, the children of creation, lift our prayers of thanksgiving and praise as we take our beginning steps in this new Easter and the continuance of the season of spring. Humble our hearts and strengthen our spirits as we seek your face in the change of the world around us. Embolden us that we might invite and welcome you to guide and awaken us from the long slumber of our winter season of heart and mind. Open our eyes that we might see your light and peace, that we together, walking in truth and faith, might be drawn as one to new life and hope. May your word speak to our witness and ministry as we remember our beginning in you. This we pray in Christ, Amen.
FEATHER: Creator God, we, your children of creation, come before you in this prayer with humble and open hearts. Continue, we pray, to open our
FEATHER: Creator God, we thank you for the rising sun and its course through the day, reminding us of the significance of every moment and
FEATHER: Almighty Creator, we the children of your creation lift up our thanksgiving for all that you are and all that you reveal in this