Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged All Saints Episcopal Church, Episcopal prayer beads, prayer for beads on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Last Sunday morning, before my husband and I piled our son’s undergraduate detritus in our van and headed home from Pasadena, I stopped into All Saints Episcopal Church for the 9 a.m. worship service. I took with me my set of Episcopal prayer beads that I made at the Sea Ranch - the ones made [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, prayer beads, Sea Ranch on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I just returned from The Sea Ranch, where we went to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary for four nights. We did not have internet access while we were there, or cellphones (yeah!), so it was a very low tech long weekend. But I did take my computer and wrote and stored some [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged National Day of Prayer, Pearls of Life, prayer beads, rosary, Yom Hashoah on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Today is both Yom Hashoah, the day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, we well as the 56th celebration of the annual National Day of Prayer, a holiday created by Congress in 1952. I have never marked the National Day of Prayer before partly because it seemed somehow artificial to pray because Congress [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Catholic rosary, Good Friday, Phyllis Tickle, prayer beads on March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How I would love to go and sit in a church or other place of sanctuary and meditation today and work my prayer beads. Good Friday has always been one of my favorite days in the church calendar. Is that weird? It is such a somber day. I think it is among my favorites because [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Breastplate on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I hope none of you are so far into your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations that you don’t have the energy to do a little prayer bead session with my favorite saint! You shouldn’t be too far gone - it’s only 2:30 p.m. here in California - but I realize that’s Happy Hour time in NYC, [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, John McQuiston, panentheism, prayer beads on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For this last week before Holy Week, I had planned to compile some prayers for prayer beads on the theme of hunger and loneliness. That’s kind of what I have been feeling lately, as winter sits - and sits and sits. But then the sun came out and I thought, that would be a bummer! [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, prayer beads, silence on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
This week, I have been thinking a lot about silence. It has been a week split between long days at home alone with my dog, Bella, and the computer and a weekend of raucus fun with girlfriends at a knitting convention that attracted thousands of people. In the first part of the week there was [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It is a rainy and cold Tuesday morning here and I find I am filled with a longing for spring. I want more than anything else to sit in the sun and feel it warm my bones. Still, it seems an appropriate landscape for Lent as I look out my window – gray skies, gray [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Jewish Healing Movement, prayers for healing on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
About eight years ago I had the pleasure of writing about the Jewish Healing Movement in my first book, Faith Beyond Faith Healing: Finding Hope After Shattered Dreams. The JHM draws on the rich tradition of Jewish prayer and ritual to create eclectic and creative healing services and prayers.
When I was reporting the book, Rabbi [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican prayer beads, cancer, Catholic rosary, prayers for healing on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Friday (Feb 1), I received some bad news. My mother, who is 63, had broken a hip and fallen - in that order - while out with my stepfather and his parents. An x-ray at the emergency room appeared to show a tumor on her bone that had worn away the joint, causing the [...]
