O God, if prayer is like sun-bathing, then let us enjoy the warmth of your love sweeping over us tenderly warming the coldness of sorrow or the greyness of our down beat days, and bringing light to flood the dark…. Amen
Easter prayer
May Hallelujah be my song. May joy defeat my sorrow. My life revive my dying days. For Christ is risen, creation revived, and I am made new! Hallelujah! Amen!
A prayer for Lent
God, beside me, I ask you to accompany me through the days of Lent, and set my feet on the way of Jesus, that I may walk on my pilgrimage with a steady pace, breathing deeply of your Spirit and nourished by your grace.
Epiphany prayer
O God, who comes to us in the everyday and in the unexpected, bless us with wisdom and banish the darkness with your light for we need you in our time…Amen
Advent prayer
O God, who waits so patiently for us and is so eager to reach out in love, give us grace to wait with you so that good things may grow in our hearts and peace and hope may bless the world, today, tonight and always, Amen.
Pentecost prayer
O God, who came at Pentecost, to turn fearful disciples into an empowered community, come upon us and full us with spirit, Amen.
Holy Week
Lord Jesus, as we accompany you on the way of the cross, we give thanks that you accompany us on the road of life, transforming every day and leading us towards the light of life. Amen
Eternal God, you love us with a tender love and we are welcome in your presence. Your arms are ready to embrace us, your love to comfort us, your encouragement to strengthen us We come to you, like a child running to a mother’s arms, and you lift us up. Thank you for the everlasting […]
The well of prayer..
God, deep as the well, clear as the water, sparkling as the spring, we praise you.
Salt and light
As the savour to the salt grain, as the power to the light, as the voice that brings me homeward as the love that holds me tight, So Lord, art thou to me.
Open our eyes, Lord Jesus, to the world around us. Give us courage to do what you ask and to ‘Come and see’. Open our eyes, Lord Jesus, to the shape of your Kingdom. Give us courage to have a vision and to ‘Come and see’. Open our eyes, Lord Jesus, to the people all […]
Prayer
O God, in this season of reflection, help me to find the people who are calling me to change my ways and to search my heart. As the Winter deepens, may my heart be stripped bare, so that when comes the Spring, I can rise renewed and flourish into life. Amen.