@scottwagoner62
Quaker pastor / Contemplative Activist / Amateur Mystic / Personal Coach - Looking to simply make this world a better place and live fully alive. Also Founder and Executive Director of Growing Edge Resources .
Evening Prayer: Loving God, after a day filled with meetings and expectations and information and appointments and worries, we feel overwhelmed and restless. May Your grace find a space in our soul to nurture peace, rest, and calm. Settle our anxiousness and help us sleep. Amen.
God Will Make a Way open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 12
Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, may we recognize the gift of this day and live it well. May we steward our moments and gifts well. May we be ones who are willing to learn and grow. May we love our neighbor and offer a presence of hospitality. May we offer acts of goodness. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for bringing us through this day. We give thanks for those moments when all worked out. We give thanks for the moments Your peace calmed our fears. We give thanks for sustaining us when we felt like giving up on the day. Gratitude. Amen.
Active Hope open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 11 - Active Hope
Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace grant us the energy we need for today. May Your grace grant us the patience necessary when plans go awry. May Your grace grant us wisdom for decisions that need to be made. May Your grace go with us throughout the whole day. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving and Gracious God, help us to let go of the things we can't control so that we may be able to rest this night. Help us to trust in You for our future even though we don't know yet what the outcomes may be. Help us to wake up hopeful in the new day. Amen.
Love Closes the Distance open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 10
Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we sift and sort through the news of the day, may we be grounded in Your good news of Your real and present Presence with us. May we hold on to Your good news of the possibility of a transformed world amidst the challenges of our present world. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, we offer You this evening the weariness of our lives and the heaviness in our hearts. We know the heaviness and weariness doesnt define us but it certainly effects us. Grant peace to our hearts and help us to rest in the reality of Your love. Amen.
Beyond Hemming and Hawing open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 9 - Jeremiah 31
Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we receive the newness of this day and the newness of this week as an opportunity to renew our intentions to live with faith, hope, and love. Help us to not dwell in the past but to live fully into the present. Keep our focus on Your goodness. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace be with us as this day ends and we seek rest. May Your grace help our minds to rest and not overthink the whole week. May Your grace help our souls to rest and not carry the weight of the day into the night. Grant us Your peace. Amen.
How to Pray? open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 8 - Keeping prayer messy...
Morning Prayer: Loving God, may we recover our hearts and souls today and remember Your goodness. May we reorient our lives back around Your ways and remember our allegiance to Your Kingdom and Your dream for all of creation. May we be Your peacemakers and peacebuilders. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, as we end this day we hold in our hearts both gratitude for the days graces and grief over life's losses. For those who are grateful, we celebrate with them. For those who grieve, we share in their heartache. Bring grace to our world and its pain. Amen.
Contemplating our Life open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 7 - The power of reflecting on our lives...
Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we live into this day, may we do so with a hopeful heart and a tender soul. May Your grace keep us from drifting into hopelessness and fatalism. Help us to keep faith and to trust in the power of small and faithful actions of peace and mercy. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, let there be peace on earth, and may it begin...
~ in my heart
~ in our relationships
~ with those we have differences with
~ in our local communities
~ with our neighbors
~ in all the places of active conflict and war
May peace always prevail
Amen
The Spiritual Practice of Listening open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 6
Morning Prayer: Loving God, may our lives bear witness to all that is good, right, and brings forth the best in one another. May our lives bear witness to peace as we offer a peaceable presence through our words and actions. May we be Lights of Grace in a grace-less world. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your Spirit help us to keep faith and hold on to hope when all seems and feels hopeless. May there be moments of grace that encourage us and moments of goodness that strengthen our soul and keep us going for the long haul. Help us persevere. Amen.
Mourning What is Meaningful open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 5 - Mourning what really matters...
Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace go with us today as we live this day. May Your grace sustain us when the day gets hard. May Your grace strengthen us when we feel weary. May Your grace work through us when we have the opportunities to offer acts of goodness. Amen.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your peace bring calm to Your hearts. May Your peace bring reconciliation to relationships. May Your peace bring healing to Your world. May Your peace bring hope to our souls. May Your peace prevail to the ends of the earth and in each person. Amen.
Why I'm Not Ready to Give up on Prayer open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 4 - Praying is more about forming us than it is about asking...
Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we go through this day, help us to keep our focus and intentions simple...
• love our neighbor
• offer a presence of mercy
• build peace where we can
• stand up for the weak and vulnerable
• bring goodness to life through all we do
Amen
Evening Prayer: Loving God, help us to not give up hope on the possibility of a world that moves towards peace. Help us to not give up hope on the ways our lives can demonstrate peace in a meaningful way. Help us to not give up hope on the possibility of a flourishing world. Amen.
I Will Lead Them by Quiet Streams open.substack.com/pub/scottwag... - Daily Lenten Reflection - March 3 - Quiet Streams of the Soul
Morning Prayer: Loving God, sometimes the day and its responsibilities are here before we're ready. We're still tired from the previous day and the challenges we're facing feel overwhelming. Help us to meet this day as we lean on Your grace and welcome Your inward strength. Amen.