prayer

April 24, 2025 - In light of Pope Francis' strong advocacy on behalf of the planet and all of its creatures, we share a prayer and video through which we hear his voice encouraging us to listen and respond to the cries that come from the earth and its creatures. By Louise Conner

March 13, 2025 - In looking for more healthy ways to respond to accumulating concerns, I am trying to make prayer my first response. By Louise Conner

December 19, 2024 - This prayer for Advent reminds me of how the Incarnation demonstrates honor and love for all of the created world, human and non-human. By Louise Conner

October 31, 2024 - This prayer from Archbishop Desmond Tuto recognizes the destruction we have caused and prays for wisdom to follow a better path. By Louise Conner

August 22, 2024 - A prayer from the Laudato Si' Movement asks God to help us stop and listen better to the voices around us. By Louise Conner

May 23, 2024 - In this prayer from the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, we find words that express a deep and delighted thankfulness towards God, whose glory and praise sound throughout the creation. By Louise Conner

January 18, 2024 - This "Canticle of Creation" invites us to join in the song as members of the innumerable-member choir that is singing a song of creation-wide praise. By Louise Conner

November 16, 2023 - Beginning with praise and gratitude when we first awaken can start us along a day's path that is rooted in awareness and joy. By Louise Conner

September 28, 2023 - Although "listening to the voice of creation," can be practiced in many good and important ways, my suggestion for today is that you try, with God's help and using this prayer, to literally and physically hear the voice of creation with your senses. By Louise Conner

August 10, 2023 - As someone who believes in both an all-powerful God and in the capability of humans to affect the course of history, I find this Prayer for the Earth from Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg to be a helpful resource and share it in the hope that others will, also. By Louise Conner

July 6, 2023 - The untitled prayer poem by E.E. Cummings, which begins with the line, "i thank You God for most this amazing day," is a celebratory chorus of joy, rejoicing in the earth and the God who is responsible for it. By Louise Conner

May 11, 2023 - I share this liturgical prayer from the Environment Programme of the Church of England and invite you use it as a tool for contemplation and gratitude. By Louise Conner

March 16, 2023 - To help people see the spiritual ramifications of the ways they live within the wider creation, an ecological examen can be a meaningful and useful tool. By Louise Conner

January 26, 2023 - Today I share a prayer from by José Hobday, a Seneca elder and a Sister of the Franciscan Order. Framing that prayer are some of her reflections about learning to "pray always" from the Native American spirituality of her mother and some reflections of my own. By Louise Conner

November 10, 2022 - Today's prayer from Walter Rauschenbusch calls us to the wonder of this amazing world, and our relationship and responsibility to it. It can also be used as a prayer for corporate repentance and decision-making. By Louise Conner

September 15, 2022 - In the prayer I share today, gratitude, grief, and the hope of transformation all find a place. The words lead into and through the daily mixture that are part of our lives, where hope butts up against chaos and mercy falls upon us in the midst of exhaustion. By Louise Conner

June 21, 2022 - Today's prayer comes from The North American Conference on Christianity and Ecology. The prayer begins with praise and thankfulness to God for God's creation and moves into confession for sins against this gift. By Louise Conner

June 9, 2022 - This psalm written by Ernesto Cardenal points us toward the wide creation and the truth that the yielding of the word hosanna is a fit task for all of creation. By Louise Conner

May 9. 2022 - Most commentators and preachers focus on the centrality of solitude and prayer to the life and ministry of Jesus. What they rarely emphasize is the importance of place in these moments. By James Amadon

March 31, 2022 - In this prayer from the Chinook Psalter, observations of the seasonal renewal at work in nature lead into a prayer that a similar renewal might happen within each of us. By Louise Conner

January 13, 2022 - I invite you to pray this prayer, not reading it as words to be assented to, but confession to be made, praise to be voiced, action to be taken: consciously, deliberately, and sincerely. By Louise Conner

November 25, 2021 - I hope that these sounds will soak into you today and will usher you into joy as you hear and enjoy the varied and expressive world that our God has made. By Louise Conner

November 4, 2021 - With the United Nations Climate change conference happening in Glasgow, Scotland through November 12, Christians have an opportunity (and I believe, a responsibility) to pray for what is happening there. By Louise Conner

September 24, 2021 - Is giving thanks the most fundamental part of your prayers? By Louise Conner

August 12, 2021 - Some prayers pour from our mouths unrehearsed and some prayers provide a structure to fit inside of and learn from. There are also prayers that through new language, provide a pathway to see ourselves, our world, and our God a little differently. By Louise Conner

June 17, 2021 - When you listen to creation, do you hear a chorus of praise? By Louise Conner

May 20, 2021 - A prayer for our neighbors—ALL of them. By Louise Conner

May 6, 2021 -Instead of the words, "Don't just sit there, do something!" perhaps we need to hear, "Don't just do something, sit there!" By Louise Conner.