Blessing the caregivers....
Bakerwoman Godby Rev. Dr. Alla Bozard Campbell(Episcopal Church of America)Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread.Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God,I am your low, soft and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, Well-kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, By your warm earth-hands.I am bread well-kneaded. Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, Put me in your own bright fire.I am warm, warm as you.From fire, I am white and gold, Soft and hard, brown and round. I am so warm from fire.Break me, Bakerwoman God. I am broken under your caring Word. Drop me in your special juice in pieces.Drop me into blood. Drunken me in the great red flood. Self-giving chalice, swallow me.My skin shines in the divine wine. My face is cup-covered and I drown. I fall up in a red pool in a gold world.Where your warm sunskin hand is there to catch and hold me.Bakerwoman God, remake me.AMEN
- Light a candle to remember Christ’s presence with you.
- Sit five to fifteen minutes in silent meditation, paying attention to the breath.
- What word or phrase captures you?
- Stay with this word or phrase.
- Enter the reading again, reading aloud this time.
- What needs to be remade in you today?
- Is there something you need to let go so that this can be remade in you?
- Spend time with your breath making space for the remaking.
- Allow Bakerwoman God to remake you.
- Where do you feel the kneading?
- Where do you feel the rising?
- Is the heat from the baking warm or hot?
- Read the words one more time listening for a call to action.
- Give thanks to God for this time in prayer and for any new insights you have received.
- Share as you feel led in the reply box below.
Revised Common Lectionary Readings for Sunday, November 13, 2011, the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year AJudges 4:1-7 Psalm 123 I Thessalonians: 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 If you use these prayers in other groups, please give credit to author. Permission to use in not-for-profit settings The Rev. Lil Smith, M.Div., DASD
