Category Archives: Prayer and Devotion

Beloved. I want to be empty. A blank page; an impenetrable darkness. And to be alone. Unmoved. Except that I know that the blackness is not a vacuum, but a space in which I can discover another, not myself, and that your nature is ‘beloved’. Then I want to reconstruct. To explore you. And findContinue reading “Beloved”

Wisdom wiser than my wisdom, Compassion fuller than mine, Understanding beyond my comprehension, These things I find when I look within myself. They are within me, yet how can they be mine? I am not like this. Yet when I reflect, a voice that sounds like mine Comforts and encourages me. In language, thoughts andContinue reading “A prayer of adoration and self-awareness”

A prayer of adoration As heart beats and mind thinks, so I love you, As world turns and stars burn, so I love you, As life matures and death approaches, so I love you, As tears fall in joy and sorrow, so I love you: God. Full stop and question mark. You are a mysteryContinue reading “A prayer of adoration”

Opening prayer “In simple trust, in silence and in stillness, in the quiet darkness, where strivings cease, you will know me.” Lord, I give myself into your keeping, my life into your hands. I will follow your guidance, and do as you say. May obedience become truly the same as loving you, for in obeyingContinue reading “Opening prayer”