Prayer or meditation
Prayer for peace
Prayer for peace
Eternal Spirit, we pray for peace in the Middle East, for the people of Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and wherever in the world war, strife and discord afflict and divide people.
We pray for a just peace everywhere, for the fair resolution of all grievances, disputes and wrongs and that just ordering of
The path to easter
A responsive Lenten meditation
We kindle our flame of fellowship.
May it be to us a symbol of springtime’s
returning warmth and the Divine Light
that shines in every loving heart.
The Lenten Fast is with us.
We remember the wilderness days of Jesus:
his lonely struggle with the inner tempter,
with wild beasts for company
and
A blessing of openness
May I be willing to have no opinion sometimes
May I be open to other opinions at all times
May I challenge and be challenged
May I fall into my infinite self
May I bless others as they fall to
May I experience all of this house our world
May I bless others as they
A prayer for violence fasting
Beloved
Here we are asking
To be delivered into
Violence Fasting.
Supreme Love
With you tasting
A sweeter smell
Violence Fasting.
We are here
To care
Not fear
So freer Beloved.
We are life
Not gun
Not bomb
Not knife
Supreme Love.
Beloved
Here we are seeing
The new breathing
Violence Fasting
Supreme Love
With
The Word
‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’
(John’s Gospel, 1: 1)
God is the Word
for the beginning
for what began the beginning
for what was at the beginning
and what has been beginning ever since.
God is the Word
for what is
and why it is
and
Being a prayer
Deep within there is a wholeness
Travelling by sound
May your wings never fear any darkness
May you simply be.
All around there are fractures
Healed by the ground
May your feet walk through each fissure
May you simply be.
The hand to the trunk of the sage of branches
An eye to the sky
Blessing of our senses
May I see the world though another’s window
May I hear the voices I often care to ignore
May I smell the ever present, both the dangers and the joys
May I taste the zest of life of every heart I have met , and every one I have yet to meet
May I touch
Arrival – a meditative prayer
Please relax
We are entering states of arrival.
You are invited to imagine
PAUSE
The exciting arrival of the new born
PAUSE
The stepping off the plane on holiday
PAUSE
The unexpected rainbow.
PAUSE
That moment that friendship becomes friendship
PAUSE
And yes unsettling states of arrival
The uniformed one stepping onto another nation’s land