November 2023

“O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you, as the day rises to meet the sun.”

A few snaps from past morning prayers, we often do a hybrid now of in person and zoom

We started meeting as an attempt to stay connected in the throes of 2020, and still, three years later, every Friday morning at 8:15am, some friends and neighbors and I gather on Zoom to pray from the Common Prayer book (1). I find praying through liturgy to be a comforting, grounding practice. The reading always includes an opening and closing that we all have memorized, a reading from the Old and New Testament (full disclosure we only ever read the New), an inspirational quote or tidbit from a historical figure, and a call and response reading of a Psalm.

Lately I don’t know what to do with the Psalms.