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This Lent we invite you to commit to a spiritual discipline of paying attention to words.  We think you'll find that Words Matter.

April 6, 2014

Words affect all of us differently.  As you read this prayer, read with generosity, and consider which images and words speak to you, and which make you bristle.  Instead of agreeing or disagreeing, expand upon an image or word from the prayer that resonated with you, or that you felt was missing, and write an expansive prayer of your own.


 


Dry brown crisp palm branches lifeless old dead . . .

Green fresh palm fanning out to new possibilities . . .

Hard edged solid rock cracked with age where we stand stable in love . . .

Blue skies wide and high a place to soar
and fly creating space in our minds and hearts . . .

Death and Life found in one tree . . .

Death and Life found on a rock . . .

Death and Life found in the sky . . .

Death and Life found in me . . .

Death and Life found in us when we stand together on the solid rock
and soar free in the blue possibilities of God’s creative love.




Photo and prayer by Rev. Ann Tiemeyer – Program Director for Women’s Ministries at the NCC
 

This Lenten Reflection is provided to you by the White Plains Presbyterian Church with kind permission from Rev. Anne Tiemeyer and the Words Matter Project of the National Council of Churches of Christ.
 
The White Plains Presbyterian Church is a historic, dynamic, and growing congregation. As a joyously diverse, multicultural community of faith, our deepest commitment is to make the Christian faith engaging and relevant.  We worship every Sunday at 10:00 AM.
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