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  "description": "A Prayer for the Week and Resources for Sunday, May 31, 2026",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T13:16:09.000Z",
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    "LetUsPray",
    "The Revised Common Lectionary",
    "The Narrative Lectionary",
    "Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith",
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    "RCL Year A Readings",
    "NRSV",
    "1 Samuel 2:1-10",
    "Psalm 113",
    "Romans 12:9-16b",
    "Luke 1:39-57",
    "NL Readings (Ruth & Esther)",
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    "Ruth 1:1-22",
    "Matthew 5:3-9",
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  "textContent": "****Weekly #LetUsPray****\n\nI offer this weekly #LetUsPray as a way to stay anchored amidst the turmoil of the day. Paid subscribers have access to liturgical resources and sermon prompts based on the week's readings from The Revised Common Lectionary and/or The Narrative Lectionary.\n\nHow is it almost June?\n\nI was having a conversation with someone this week about activism, faith, and the church. We talked about the need for our actions to be rooted in and grounded in an understanding of our faith. Elements of our faith will shift and change over time, but for people of faith, we will make the strongest impact if our actions and our activities are rooted in our beliefs.\n\nYes, this seems pretty basic, but I have found that when I am feeling a little bit off-kilter, I need to stop, take a breath, and ask myself why I am doing what I am doing. Maybe the disorientation is justified, but sometimes it becomes clear that I have bought into motivations that are not worthy of my energy, time, or resources. That feeling inside is the Spirit poking and prodding to check myself.\n\nThis conversation, combined with the reality that there is a month of self-inflicted chaos ahead of me with our family Bay Area move and my move to Pasadena to start my time as the p/t Transitional Pastor at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.\n\nWhat I am going to do is to share my \"Statement of Faith,\" or as I titled it in Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith, my \"Faith Montage.\" I am sure you will not agree with everything, but I hope some of these passages will speak to your soul.\n\nIf you're interested, I am in the process of litanizing (Is that even a word?) the entire montage and creating slides for folks to use. Also, if you are a Paid Subscriber, you can get a PDF of the entire montage (See below) for personal or congregational use.\n\nI begin with the belief that, _in life and in death, I belong to God_.\n\n* * *\n\n### I am Known by God #LetUsPray\n\n _Let us pray —_\n\n _I choose to believe that, in life and in death, I belong to God.\nGod stirs my soul._\n\n_In the morning, life-giving first breath fills my lungs.\nGod stills my spirit._\n\n_In the evening, the calm of the night flows through my body.\nGod moves me._\n\n_The Holy One beckons me forth,\nthrough bands of light,\ninto coves of darkness,\nwoven into rainbows,\nand amid the in-between and unknown—_\n\n _All the while, with every tender breath,\nI am reminded of God’s hoping, yearning, and dreaming\nthat I grow into all I am intended to become._\n\n_I am**GROUNDED** in the presence of God._\n\n_God knows me.\nGod sees me.\nGod loves me.\nAnd that is enough._\n\n_God is with me.\nGod has been with me.\nGod will always be with me._\n\n_Through crawling minutes and blurred decades,\nmundane whispers and shouts of magnificence,\nawkward encounters and an impassioned embrace,\nbrisk breezes, warm skies, cool fog, living deserts, flourishing forests, living water,\nthe farm, the field, the town, the suburb, the streets, and the city,\nduring protests, parties, feasts, and funerals,\nat coffee shops, clubs, stages, pitches, courts, corners, classrooms, playgrounds, porches, barbershops, dining tables, couches, screens, and every unexpected holy space:_\n\n_Through and in it all, God is known to my soul,\nand I am reminded that I am known by God._\n\n_— Amen._\n\n* * *\n\nPeace,\n\n## LITURGY AND PREACHING PROMPTS\n\n#### Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, May 31, 2026\n\nRCL Year A Readings **(** NRSV**):** 1 Samuel 2:1-10 | Psalm 113 | Romans 12:9-16b | Luke 1:39-57\nNL Readings (Ruth & Esther) **(** CEB**):** Ruth 1:1-22 (Loss and Loyalty) Accompanying text: Matthew 5:3-9 (The Beatitudes)\n\nIn writing liturgy, I attempt to be economical with words while addressing the events of the day in ways that help people find grounding in their faith. For readings, I refer to the Vanderbilt Revised Common Lectionary **(RCL)** and The Narrative Lectionary from The Working Preacher **(NL)**. Paid Subscribers should please feel free to use any of the liturgical resources with or without attribution.\n\nGift Subscriptions\n\nIf you find this weekly prayer, liturgy, or any other aspects of The Amalgamation meaningful, I would not hate it if you shared the joy with others by purchasing a Gift Subscription.\n\n\n                            🧧 Gift Subscription\n                        \n\n* * *\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Faith Montage: I am Known by God #LetUsPray",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-28T13:16:09.341Z"
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