God of our ancestors, may we find the ways in which we can connect across generations.

We hold space for all that Father's Day may mean to us.

We have a holy obligation to bring about paradise on this earth; each generation helps us do that.

May we forever perceive the ways we can empower others.

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

Every time someone showed up for me, I learned that love is greater than skin deep.

Acknowledging that our dream was not happening didn't end the grief, but it did offer closure.

We light this chalice today to illuminate our way toward Love.

Sometimes it feels like Father’s Day is more about enshrining a myth than it is about facing the realities of fatherhood.

Spirit of Life, remind me to release that which no longer serves me so that I may be present to joy.

Sometimes love is simply letting someone else like what they like.

We cannot begin to find ourselves without love.

Can I do it again? Do I even dare? Do I have the strength? Because the cradle might be empty—again.

This year, the Advent season seems particularly seized by a spirit of the expected, the longing.

In these days of so much uncertainty, may we choose honesty over comfort, love over complacency, and truth over convenience.

One day, I’ll have to care for my mother as she once cared for me. I’m not ready to handle the truth that our relationship must change.

This is a prayer for working parents zooming another meeting with a little face joining in; for new parents, waiting for new life without support; for the single parents, doing all this alone.

What once seemed certain is now unpredictable, even dangerous.

Our conversations about the history of our country—the actions of our ancestors—can be made new and relevant and understandable. We can and must have these conversations.

an original retelling Daedalus was a brilliant inventor, and he had made a career, even a legend of himself for being able to create the seemingly impossible. So when he decided to escape from his tower prison by flying over the ocean like a bird, his son, Icarus, had no doubt he would do it. It...