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God is at home. It’s we who have gone out for a walk.
-Meister Eckhart

In the late 1970s a feminist worship renewal movement called the Mother Thunder Mission appeared in New York City. Playfully named for the unknown mother of the disciples James and John (known as the Sons of Thunder, their father was named Zebedee, so…), participants in the mission worked to create worship resources and prayers that helped open the language of Christian worship to include and celebrate a wider range of images for God and humanity. Today, we celebrate their contributions and passion by sharing this version of the Jesus Prayer.

Holy One, our only Home, hallowed be your Name. May your day dawn, your will be done, here as in heaven. Feed us today and forgive us, as we forgive each other. Do not forsake us at the test, but deliver us from evil. For the glory, the power, and the mercy are yours, now and forever. Amen.

As you walk through this day and night, may the prayers of the faithful and the playful and the wayward and the wise in every time and place bear you up and shelter your sweet soul.  

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
-Psalm 84.3