A Fifth Collection of Reflective Prayers

About the Book

These reflective prayers are the result of permitting a gentle reading of the lectionary texts for a given service to resonate in me and emerge as a searching engagement of the word with my spirit in a mood of settled joy. The ninety samples given are the most recent, in order, at the time of publication.

About the Author

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ), living in the hills of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. Since 1983 I have used the form I call Reflective Prayers as one way into my sense of the lectionary texts for a given Sunday or other worship occasion. I quickly found the form useful, indeed powerful for me, both in terms of searching the texts and searching me in resonance with the texts - spiritually, that is. The more mature of these have arrived through me over the last decade or so. The practice continues to be fertile for my spirit. I now live with my wife of forty-nine years, two dogs and a handful of cats in the midst of fracking country.