Prayer or meditation
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
Aspects of God
God of our inmost selves
and of the stars from which we came;
who is both the core of our being
and the transcendent mystery;
of whom there is no need of proof,
because we are here to ask the question;
to whom all true religion points, but whom no religion can ever truly comprehend;
who is the truth
The ever opening heart
Thank you great mystery
For relationship
Thank you planet
For touching the mystery with me
Thank you
You and you all of you
For waking in the mystery too
An ever opening heart
Every day a new start
Supreme Love inspire
This chasm this vision
Taller deeper wider
In this Great Mystery
May we always
Partakers of the divine
‘…whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature.’
(II Peter 1: 4)
We are products and partakers of the Divine,
whether we like it or not,
as are all things that live, all things that exist.
With our minds we explore the mystery that
Five stones – a resource for communal prayer
An interactive alternative to Candles of Joys and Concerns using pebbles as touchstones for prayers. Developed by Jo James at Mill Hill Chapel in lockdown 2020
It can be helpful to invite participants to contribute actual stones, sea pebbles & touchstones are ideal, to hold. At Mill Hill we invite people to drop stones into the
By many different paths
O God,
the Ultimate, the One,
we, who came here by many different paths,
greet you and bow before you.
We were not just placed here on this planet.
We grew with it, out of it,
yet always in its web of life.
We were many things before we were human.
We were many humans before we
A prayer
Eternal God, we seek through prayer to uplift our minds and hearts and refresh our spirits.
Spirit of love be with us.
We are grateful to share fellowship with each other but we come with haunting images in our minds images of people in distress, people looking for sanctuary – children, mothers, fathers, grandparents, people from across