Blessings and Benedictions
Each Sunday, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor offers a blessing and benediction for the week ahead. We hope that these will inspire you and nurture your faith.
1/5/2023
Blessing and Benediction from Robyn Davis Sekula
God, help us to find peace when we seek it, joy when we least expect it, kindness when we need it, and to be peaceful, joyful and kind to others. Amen.
12/20/2022
A Blessing for the New Year
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
12/20/2022
A Christmas Blessing
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
12/15/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Dr. Andy Kort
This time of the year we use the word “hope” with great frequency. Some of us light a candle on the Advent wreath for hope. Children hope to receive certain gifts from a list that has been carefully and thoughtfully crafted. Children are not alone in this, as we hope for things too.
11/22/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty
As autumn leaves float down and begin to cultivate the earth for months and years ahead, may we remind our bodies and spirits that new life WILL come.
11/16/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Adriene Thorne
For many this is a season of thanks-giving. For others a season of mourning. Feasting and weeping, gathering and grieving sit side by side, shoulder to shoulder.
11/10/2022
Blessings and Benedictions from Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia
As inhabitants of these earthly bodies, we do not hide from its temporal form. Yet, too often we find ourselves relying solely on the work of our own hands rather than lifting them up to the One who created them. We confuse busyness with blessedness, forgetting we are children of God simply because you have said it is so. Our bodies were made to worship you, not to labor endlessly.
11/3/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Rebecca Mallozzi
Through the prophet Haggai, God sends great encouragement to the people. Yes, things look different. Yes, it doesn’t look like the way it always was. No, we can’t promise that the number of people in your pews will ever be the same. Haggai calls it like it is in verse 3: “How does it look to you now? Is it not in your sight as nothing?”
10/27/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Elizabeth Kanerva
What do we do when we fall into the temptation of comparing ourselves to another just to feel good about our lives? Slow down and pause. Take a deep breath and in that quiet space, center yourself back to the core of Jesus’s discipleship teachings: love God and love your neighbor. Then, get up and start again, for every day is a new beginning.
10/20/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Jennifer Rodriguez
While sitting, while standing
The presence of our God will accompany us on our paths
10/13/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Ivan Herman
God’s promise of grace is renewed with each new day and each new breath.
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