Download includes:

• PDF print-ready file of the prayers (for you to print and distribute to members, or copy/paste for worship liturgy).
  PDF includes 6 poetic prayers with the following themes and titles:

  • A MONEY STORY | Nickels

  • REMEMBER | Not Too Many Times

  • RELEASE | But First

  • REIMAGINE | Love, By Another Way

  • RESTORE (INDIVIDUAL FOCUS) | East of Eden

  • RESTORE (COMMUNAL FOCUS) | Pocket-Sized Moments

Uses:

• Print the prayers and distribute them to members in your community

• Adapt the prayers as your Call to Worship or opening prayer for worship

• Use the prayers in a bible study group or Sunday school to deepen your reflection throughout your stewardship series

• Use the poetry as a meditation during the sermon

• Use the poetry to inspire your own liturgy and sermon writing

• Print the poetry in your bulletin (perhaps as the bulletin cover)

Excerpt:

I used to think that love was simple.
You would know when you know,
What was meant, would be.
But I fell in love
And it’s not that easy.
It’s compromise and identity,
Mountains and valleys,
Apologies and memories,
Imbalance, recentering.
It turns out,
Love took reimagining.

I used to think that Church was simple.
Church was community, not the walls,
Faith and hope mixed with call.
But then the world grew violently sick
And the way to be Church
Was to keep distance.
So doors were closed,
And people sent home.
It was all love, by another way.
And yet it was not how we imagined Sunday. . .

—Sarah Are, from “Love, By Another Way”

Credit Info:

When printing and sharing online or in worship, please always include the following credits:
Prayers by Sarah Are | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org