O God of mercy and calm, be with us in the stormy days of our lives; the turbulent hours when we are not our best selves, or the days when trouble comes and we are all at sea. Help us to ride the storms and face the winds, fill our sails with your Holy Spirit, […]
Come to God…
Come to the meadow, to the still waters of God’s presence and be restored… Come with all that hurts and all that makes you afraid, come even though your life is shadowed by sorrow and live in fear no more.. Come to God in prayer and let God touch you with mercy and with goodness […]
On the death of the Duke of Edinburgh
O God, our rock and our redeemer, we give thanks for your servant Philip.We thank you for his long life, for his dedicated support of his wife in her vocation as Queen,and for his service to commonwealth and nation. We thank you for the Duke of Edinburgh award, for the work of the World Wide […]
Prayer for using gifts with humility
Prayers of thanksgiving & intercession for the 4th Sunday in Creationtide, following a sermon on Philippians 2:1-11 (with an eye on verse 13) We give you thanks, God our creator, that you have given us, not just life, but the means of flourishing. Your gifts to us enable humankind through science to explore, better understand, […]
Prayer for this time
Loving Jesus, who touched the sick, who blessed those named unclean, who let Mary touch you with her tears, and whose own body was pierced by the nails, come and be with us now in these times. When we have to be untouchable to one another for a time, show us how to love. When […]
Prayer
O God, who is always with us and whose love overwhelms our fear, hold us through these days and weeks. May we find courage to endure and let there be flowers blooming in the wilderness. We place ourselves into your loving hands and offer our lives in your service. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Lighten our darkness…
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.