I am a retired minister from the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ), living in the hills of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. Since 1983 I have used the form I call Reflective Prayers as one way into my sense of the lectionary texts for a given Sunday or other worship occasion. I quickly found the form useful, indeed powerful for me, both in terms of searching the texts and searching me in resonance with the texts - spiritually, that is. The more mature of these have arrived through me over the last decade or so. The practice continues to be fertile for my spirit. I now live with my wife of forty-nine years, two dogs and a handful of cats in the midst of fracking country.
