Pausing the nightly Compline posts for a little bit while as I focus on getting on top of some health things. I’ll be back when things are steadier.
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Pausing the nightly Compline posts for a little bit while as I focus on getting on top of some health things. I’ll be back when things are steadier.
It’s now less than three months until my Simple Profession of Vows, and I’m starting to send out prayer cards (made to fit in your breviary)!
If you’d like one, add your name and address to this form (forms.gle/uYspjLTe1yCM...) so I don’t miss anyone, and I’ll mail one out to you.
Be assured of my continued prayers for you.
Offering Compline this night for those who barely made it through today and know it.
May God sit beside you in the wreckage, and keep watch while you rest.
You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted.
Offering Compline this night for those who carried a kindness today that no one noticed.
May God remember it, and grant you rest.
Sung Compline by candlelight at the Cathedral this evening after a hard appointment, followed by a decaf oat iced vanilla latte.
As close to heaven as one can get of an evening.
Offering Compline this night for those who chose patience today when impatience would have been easier.
May God honour the restraint, and grant you rest.
A day of Holy Communion, study, and a little ministry. A bit of normality. God is good.
Offering Compline this night for those who paused today and noticed the sky for a moment.
May God keep that small wonder alive in you, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who are ending the day a little braver than they began it.
May God keep that quiet courage, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who are carrying gratitude and grief in the same breath.
May God hold both gently, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who are noticing the ache of growth.
May God bless what is stretching in you, and grant you rest.
Praying for all caught in the sudden US-Israel conflict with Iran: for civilians, families, children and the peacemakers in hearts and governments.
May mercy prevail where war stirs.
Reading The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World this weekend.
Ordinary places, mapped with extraordinary intent.
No Compline posts for a few days as I’m recovering from a mild concussion and trying to practice what I preach about rest.
Listening to All Down Darkness Wide on audiobook.
The book is tender, honest, heart wrenching, and unafraid of the reality of mental illness — how it shapes love, memory, and the spaces between people. Quiet, but unflinching.
So that healing can come first. This fundraiser supports someone going through cancer treatment and recovery.
Link here if you’d like to help or share: gofund.me/3fe3a7c22.
Offering Compline this night for those who are celebrating something they haven’t told anyone about.
May God rejoice with you, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who are trying not to measure themselves against anyone else.
May God free you from comparison, and grant you rest.
Some big news.
Together with two of my brothers, I’m leaving the House of Initia Nova, and following where we believe the Spirit is calling us — toward renewed religious life in the SEC.
Read our statement below.
We would be very grateful for your prayers, friends.
Offering Compline this night for those who are laughing at something that would have broken them last year.
May God bless the strength you didn’t notice growing, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who are resisting the urge to explain themselves one more time.
May God hold you without clarification, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those whose bodies are healing in ways they cannot rush.
May God be patient where you are impatient, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who felt unseen in a room full of people.
May God see you fully, and grant you rest.
This morning I finished The Screwtape Letters (again).
It’s remarkable how a narrative voiced from hell sharpens one’s vision of heaven — exposing how easily affection cools, attention drifts, and eternity is bartered for the immediate.
Offering Compline this night for those who are tired of rehearsing conversations that may never happen.
May God quiet the rehearsal, and grant you rest.
Offering Compline this night for those who opened a window just to feel the air change.
May God breathe newness into you, and grant you rest.
You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted
Offering Compline this night for those who kept one small boundary today and are still trembling from it.
May God guard that courage, and give you rest.