Universalist Prayers from Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Refuge with Ourselves Beloved, when we are anxious, frightened, weary, angry, confused, and alienated from our sense of being whole, of belonging, or of being enough, may we pause and breathe, creating spaciousness with you. May we create spaciousness that can be a refuge, a place to... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Work to Be Love Made Manifest Maker, Imaginer, Caretaker, Lover of Life, help us where we have lost our way, losing track of how to create workplaces rooted in love and nurturing joy in our communities. Turn us away from the need to carve off time for... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for #FatLiberation - Week of August 28, 2023 Lover of Abundance, may we dream and create the world of our dreams where everyone is free, where we don’t flinch when a stranger’s gaze turns towards us, afraid of the judgments likely to roll from their hands and lips... Rev. Naomi King

Honey in the Rock, may we embody generosity every day, this giving and receiving that nurtures and thickens connections with good feelings and enoughness and more than enoughness. May our generosity ensure the armor of supremacist notions no longer fit our frames, too binding, too tight, as they have been... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer forJoy Amid Complexity - Week of August 14, 2023 Lover of Joy, you steady us when we are crumbling apart, and help us shake with rejuvenating laughter when it would be easier to do anything but. You do not deny that life can be painful, or grief-full, or... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Loving These Curves and Angles Beloved, here, let my flesh settle, lean back against this tree, against your body, against this couch, my curves and angles meeting and adjusting against the curves and angles of this world as they meet and adjust with me, us, together, connecting... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Juiciness - Week of July 31, 2023 Restorer and Savorer of Life’s Abundance, lead us in the wide, verdant paths of nurturing a juicier life for each and for all. May we savor the sweetness of life, from the conversations that spark our minds to sharing a... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Loving Ourselves - Week of July 24, 2023 Quirky, delighted and amazing Grace, may we keep practicing this daily effort of loving ourselves. May we have the wisdom to practice self-compassion when we would offer compassion to others and also notice how much easier compassion for others... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer For Wonderment Alongside Brokenness Gracious Love, may we pray ever for the wow and wonderment when we meet loss, challenges, and these judgments called brokenness. What are we breaking into? What are we remaking as? When we ravel and ravel and ravel into new fibres, shapes, colors, dreams... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Respect - Week of July 10, 2023 Should I pray to Mercy or to Wisdom? To the Beloved to be beloved or to the Honey in the Rock, starting from that place of surprising possibilities amid difficult times? Mystery and Wonder, I don’t know where to start... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer to Co-Create Time - Prayer for Week of July 3, 2023 From our first breath to our last, Beloved, we are time incarnate, co-creating time and our sense of it, of wasted time and tasted time and blessed time and cursed time and slow time and metered time... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Loving Well - Prayer for Week of June 26, 2023 Beloved, may we lean against your sun warmed legs by those trees and breathe deeply together, resting our hearts and whole beings. When we are weary of a world of people that criminalizes same-gender loving, when we... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Freedom - Week of June 19, 2023 Lover of Liberation, teach us to be suspicious of the long legacies of white supremacy and enslavement practices that adapt from season to season and era to era, to keep power available to a few and leave even those who... Rev. Naomi King