October 12, 2026 by Elizabeth H. CottrellBe Swift to Love: A Benediction for Everyone Who Serves [Updated 2026] Some words stay with you for years. For me, one of those is a benediction, or blessing, given at the closing Eucharist of the 2010 … Read moreBe Swift to Love: A Benediction for Everyone Who Serves
April 22, 2016 by Elizabeth H. CottrellAntidote For Despair May this imagery and poem feed your soul, as it does mine: The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I … Read moreAntidote For Despair
September 11, 2014 by Elizabeth H. CottrellPrayers For Peace My friend Jean Allen Davis recently shared these two beautiful prayers from an out-of-print pamphlet written by The Rev. Alan Houghton. On this 13th … Read morePrayers For Peace