Right Where We Are

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features the Bookmark Prayer of St. Theresa of Avila.  May these words be kind companions along your journey.

• The Bookmark Prayer of St. Theresa of Avila

“Let nothing disturb you.

Let nothing frighten you.

All things are passing away.

God never changes.

Patience obtains all things.

Whoever has God lacks nothing.

God alone suffices.”

- St. Theresa of Avila

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features the familiar Come to Me passage from the gospel of Matthew.  May these words be kind companions along your journey.

• Matthew 11:28 - 30 from the New American Standard Bible, The New Testament for Everyone and The Message

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features The Beatitudes from Matthew 5:1-12 in The Christian Standard Bible, The Passion Translation and The Message. May these words be kind companions along your journey.

• Matthew 5:1-12 from The Christian Standard Bible, The Passion Translation, and The Message

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features the prayer Prophets of Future Not Our Own by Ken Untener written in 1979. This work is more commonly known as The Oscar Romero Prayer. May these words be kind companions along your journey.

• Prophets of a Future Not Our Own by Ken Untener

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features another prayer from Celtic prophet and Scottish clergyman George MacLeod. May these words be kind companions along your journey.

“ Almighty God…

Sun behind all suns,

soul within all souls…

Show to us in everything we touch and in everyone we meet

the continued assurance of thy presence round us,

lest ever we should think thee absent.

In all created things thou art there.

In every friend we have

the sunshine of thy presence is shown forth.

In every enemy that seems to cross our path,

thou art there within the cloud

to challenge us to love.

Show to us the glory in the grey.

Awake for us thy presence in the very storm

till all our joys are seen as thee

and all our trivial task emerge as priestly sacraments

in the universal temple of thy love.”

                                      - George MacLeod

• A prayer by George MacLeod from his book The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona Prayers

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Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features Psalm 145:8-16 from the Christian Standard Bible, The Passion Translation and Psalms for Praying by Nan Merrill. May these words be kind companions along your journey.

• Psalm 145:8-16 from the Christian Standard Bible, The Passion Translation and Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness by Nan Merrill.

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Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today's episode features a prayer from French Scientist and Jesuit Priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. May these words be kind companions along your journey. 

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

And yet it is the law of all progress

And so I think it is with you;

Only God could say what this new spirit

•  Patient Trust by Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today's episode features a prayer from Celtic prophet and Scottish clergyman George MacLeod. He modeled this prayer after the familiar Prayer of St. Patrick in which Christ is sought in all things. More information on George MacLeod can be found in Sacred Earth Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell. May these words by kind companions along your journey. 

“Christ above us, Christ beneath us,

Christ beside us, Christ within us.

Invisible we see you, Christ above us.

With earthly eyes we see above us clouds or sunshine,

                grey or bright.

But with the eye of faith, we know you…

                instinct in the sun ray,

                speaking in the storm,

                warming and moving all creation, Christ above us.

Invisible we see you, Christ beneath us.

With earthly eyes we see beneath us stones and dust

                and dross…

But with the eye of faith, we know you uphold.

In you all things consist and hang together:

                The very atom is light energy,

                the grass vibrant,

                the rocks pulsate.

All is in flux; turn but a stone and an angel moves.

Underneath are the everlasting arms.

Unknowable we know you, Christ beneath us.

Inapprehensible we know you, Christ beside us.

With earthly eyes we see men and women, exuberant or dull,

                tall or small.

But with the eye of faith, we know you dwell in each.

You are imprisoned in…the dope fiend and the drunk,

dark in the dungeon, but you are there.

You are released, resplendent, in the loving mother,

…the passionate bride,

and in every sacrificial soul.

Inapprehensible we know you, Christ beside us.

Intangible, we touch you, Christ within us.

With earthly eyes we see ourselves, dust of the dust, earth of

                the earth.

But with the eye of faith, we know ourselves all girt about of

                eternal stuff,

                                our minds capable or divinity,

                                our bodies groaning, waiting for the revealing ,

                                our souls redeemed, renewed.

Intangible we touch you, Christ within us.

Christ above us, beneath us, beside us, within us, what need

                have we for temples made with hands?”

                                                         -George MacLeod The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona Prayers

• A prayer by George MacLeod from his book The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona Prayers

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today's episode will be the last new episode for now and will feature Psalm 115 from Nan Merrill's Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness. May these words be kind companions along your journey. Thank you for joining me!

• Psalm 115 from Nan Merrill's Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today's episode will feature New Wine from the books of Matthew, Mark and Luke from the Contemporary English Version. May these words be kind companions along your journey.

• Matthew 9:14-17 CEV