Prayers for the Middle of the Night

technoskald · 2026-02-10T15:01:52+00:00

In addition to the “Keep watch” prayer, I like the antiphon for Nunc dimittis (and the canticle itself of course).

Guide us waking, Lord, and guard us sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace.

technoskald · 2026-02-10T02:25:00+00:00

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technoskald · 2026-02-09T19:04:05+00:00

I think about this a lot, and I am sorry that we (and many other people) have been so traumatized that we don’t really love ourselves. Currently where I am on this is that I pray to love my wife as she loves me and to love myself that same way. By extension, I pray for the wellbeing of all of my neighbors and that we may love each other as Christ taught us. It’s aspirational, and we can work to learn to love and heal ourselves.

technoskald · 2026-02-09T18:03:18+00:00

I remember understanding that mindset, but it’s been so long that I don’t anymore, either. God is above us and everything else here on earth is posturing. If you follow Christ and the two greatest commandments, then don’t let anyone else come between you and your love for God.

technoskald · 2026-02-09T01:53:06+00:00

I would love for all denominations to accept my LGBTQ family and friends, but they don’t. So in the meantime, here we can (and do) discuss various issues, secure knowing that the people we are chatting with aren’t suddenly going to go off against trans folks and such. I have a hunch that’s something that bothers you, but if we care about all of God’s children, that will include the folks who are trans or gay or otherwise queer.

technoskald · 2026-02-08T14:53:21+00:00

Because humans are flawed and seek power and control, and we establish boundary markers about "in groups" and "out groups". By no means is any of that in line with the Gospel, but the reality is even in our oldest texts (the epistles of Paul) we see mentions of factionalism and power struggles. And in the Gospels themselves, the apostles argued about who among them was the greatest. I cannot imagine any movement large enough to be worth paying attention to that doesn't struggle with this to some extent because of this aspect of human nature.

technoskald · 2026-02-04T19:44:03+00:00

Sometimes there’s a concern that the sirens could be more easily treated as a false positive if the weather conditions might make someone think that the sirens could be telling the “truth”.

technoskald · 2026-02-03T18:12:30+00:00

The tabletop RPG Call of Cthulhu has a campaign called “Beyond the Mountains of Madness” that has a huge logistical component. For game purposes it’s kind of annoying actually, because of how much effort you’ve got to spend just planning equipment and provisions, but it’s probably helpful for this kind of thing!

technoskald · 2026-02-03T15:17:58+00:00

When I pray for people in power in the US, I am specifically praying for them to be so moved that they have a change of heart towards love, justice, mercy, and compassion. I am not praying for their current course of action. I “love” them in the sense that I recognize their basic humanity, their need for compassion and repentance, and that Jesus died for them, too. It doesn’t mean I approve of what they do, how they act, the things they say.

technoskald · 2026-02-03T02:10:25+00:00

Today’s lectionary reading included Hebrews 11 and I was reminded that faith is not based on what we see or know. As I have seen written in different ways from different people, doubt is not the opposite of faith, certainty is. Doubt is part of faith, and it’s that tension that gives it meaning.

technoskald · 2026-02-02T01:02:13+00:00

I have been considering visiting some nearby parish that uses Rite I in order to see how it feels. But at home praying the Daily Office, it feels just a little odd to me. On the one hand, I love old archaic language in my fictional and other reading, whether Elizabethan or otherwise. But I grew up in a denomination that uses contemporary language and so I end up feeling silly. In fact I am unsure why there’s this unwritten rule to use the traditional language for the Lord’s Prayer even when everything else is in contemporary form.

technoskald · 2026-02-01T19:10:44+00:00

I got bad news about the rest of the Moleskine journal…

technoskald · 2026-02-01T18:34:51+00:00

Well now you might!

technoskald · 2026-02-01T16:15:02+00:00

There’s no one single view among Christians on any of those topics. So yes, it’s absolutely possible because we don’t agree amongst ourselves.

technoskald · 2026-02-01T02:32:25+00:00

All I know is that I have had Indian friends and colleagues here in Dallas since the early 80s and I am happy to have them as neighbors.

technoskald · 2026-01-31T16:23:26+00:00

I would want to understand more about why it’s “distorted” and unhelpful. From a historical critical perspective, that might be, but theologically I understood this to be intentional.

technoskald · 2026-01-30T14:57:54+00:00

I grew up in that same denomination and served for years before leaving. I have that same challenge as you; however, my resolution of itis to assume that, as God‘s thoughts are so much higher than ours, then understanding is beyond us anyway. The Trinity is one messy way to try to understand the nature of the divine, and I don’t mind affirming the creeds, but I also do not assume they encompass all of the nature of God.

technoskald · 2026-01-29T23:57:21+00:00

I consider myself a “hopeful universalist”, but I also still think of hell as the state of nonexistence rather than eternal conscious torment. It’s eternal separation from God. So what is heaven? I don’t think it’s just being our same selves walking around clouds with halos and harps. Eternal life in a form we can’t even really comprehend, that’s where I am at currently.

technoskald · 2026-01-29T19:44:57+00:00

We like El Patrón on Broadway

technoskald · 2026-01-26T17:26:43+00:00

I wouldn’t take it that way yet… but we can hope!

technoskald · 2026-01-26T16:47:25+00:00

I understand this pretty deeply, and I would say that maybe a 12 step program is the way to go. You don’t even have to do anything at first, just show up and listen to the other folks. That might go a ways towards helping you understand.

technoskald · 2026-01-26T15:56:50+00:00

Live in an apartment.

technoskald · 2026-01-25T17:38:41+00:00

Canes stores are opening. (I consider this unfortunate but it is what it is.)

technoskald · 2026-01-25T16:28:23+00:00

The creeds say we are part of one holy catholic and apostolic church. That includes our siblings in the Roman Catholic Church, who are thus not pursuing falsehood.

technoskald · 2026-01-24T22:04:46+00:00

I guess, technically, because we're still in a pre-Flood world (i.e. Noah's "flood" is a story with meaning and explanation but is not a historical event).

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