Category Archives: Prayer and Devotion

God, our Father, Enfold us in the womb of your creative Spirit. In darkness and stillness, In the warmth of your compassion, In the activity of your love, In the mystery of your grace, Let the bud become a flower, And the flower bear fruit, And your love be honoured in our lives.

Teach us to trust the sureness of your forgiveness. Your grace opens up to us the way of salvation. And even while we still strive for fullness of life You fill us with peace, We neither deserve, nor can we understand. So, we praise you for the new life you give us. Tender to ourContinue reading “Renewal”

Gentle and compassionate Lord, Whose joy in living pervades creation, Our laughter catches the echo of your mirth When friends celebrate their well-being together. We adore you in our thankfulness For the goodness we enjoy, And bless you for your silent strength Beside us in times of trouble. You have poured out your compassion uponContinue reading “Adoration and thanksgiving”

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”