A Fourth Collection of Reflective Prayers

I am a retired minister from a Christian church (Disciples of Christ), and I 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 occasion. I quickly found the form useful, indeed powerful for me, both in terms of searching the text 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. I now live with my wife of forty-eight years, two dogs, and a handful of cats. Four ducks have recently been added to our mix on our five acres of reasonable solitude.