Spiritual Practices
Nine free prayer practices for the places you already inhabit — a backyard, a golf course, a harbor, a meditation garden. Each one asks only that you stop long enough to receive what is already being offered. Print them, forward them, use them with a group, or walk them alone.
These come from the BlueGreen Theology Project, the Rector’s decade of writing between sermons, beside our own pond — watershed discipleship, creation care, and a theology that finds the church year already written into the seasons outside our doors. Visit the BlueGreen Theology Project →
The Church Year
Practices that follow the seasons the church already keeps, and find their creation parallel. Walk them when the season comes around, or whenever you need them.
Season of Creation In Season Now
Praying with Hildegard
Hildegard of Bingen’s viriditas as a prayer experience. Pray through the greenings, and stand honestly in the dry ground.
Open the Tool →Season of Creation In Season Now
A Canticle of the Birds
Praying with our brothers and sisters of the air. Twelve companions of the watershed, in the idiom of Francis’s sermon to the birds.
Open the Tool →Season of Creation
Praying with St. Francis
The Canticle of the Sun as a prayer experience. Meet Brother Sun, Sister Water, and all the company of creation.
Open the Tool →Lent & Holy Week
Blue Green Stations of the Cross
A water-earth journey with Christ. Find these stations in your watershed, yard, or neighborhood.
Open the Tool →Easter Season
Stations of the Resurrection
Fourteen stations following the resurrection appearances. Christ continues to rise in creation.
Open the Tool →Easter through Labor Day
Stations of the Spirit
Nine stations from spring awakening through harvest abundance. Poetry from Oliver, Berry, Hopkins, Rumi, and Stafford.
Open the Tool →Where You Already Are
No season required. These begin from the ground under your feet: a garden, a fairway, a boat, a patch of grass behind the house. The particular place is not an illustration — it is the whole point.
Year Round
Garden Meditations
Ten minutes. Four sensory prompts. The meditation doesn’t tell you what the garden means — it asks you to stop long enough that the garden can tell you.
Open the Tool →On the Course
Golf Meditation
Walking on Grass. The Saturday and the Sunday are not separate. The grass you’re walking on is speaking.
Open the Tool →On the Water
Sailing Meditation
Wondrous Works in the Deep. The openness you feel on the water is not incidental — it is theological data.
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