Prayer or meditation
Grace before meals
Spirit of Life, I thank you for this food. I honour all the human hands involved in bringing this food from field to fork. I thank the elements – earth, air, sun, rain – that nourished the life forms who died to nourish me. I honour their lives and their rebirth in my body, in
Psalm 85, reimagined
Holy One, restore us.
Forgive us our iniquity, for all the ways we damage the earth, our fellow creatures and ourselves; show us we are all one.
Turn to us in Your compassion and revive us, that we may rejoice.
Show us your steadfast love and grant us peace.
Promise well-being to those who revere
Let us give thanks – a Harvest prayer
Spirit of Life, Ground of Our Being,
at this harvest-time, we give thanks for the gifts of nature, freely given.
For the abundance and beauty of this earth, we give thanks.
For fertile soils, ripening crops and fruiting hedgerows, we give thanks.
For bracing breezes and misty mornings, we give thanks.
For cool evenings and
The Lord’s Prayer, reimagined
Spirit of Life, Ground of all Being, Our Mother and Father,
Who are throughout the whole cosmos
Holy are All Your Names
Holy are we, whoever and however we are
Your realm of love and justice come
Through the actions of our hands
And the desires of our hearts
Open our hearts to those who
New exodus
This appears as a suggested prayer in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
No Moses leads them
to a promised land
but still they come
preyed on by parasites
without humanity.
They may number hundreds,
thousands, but they are not
a ‘flood’, a ‘tidal wave’
they are people – each one
with their own story.
Still they
It is easy to cry peace
This appears as a suggested prayer in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
(TW added by Worship Words: Reference to rape and torture)
It is easy to cry ‘peace’
when we are not oppressed by tyranny.
It is easy to invoke patience
when our loved ones are not in chains.
It is easy to
Earth blessings
The Earth –
Soil feels in your hands
As life itself
Blessed Earth thank you
May we remember Earth
Commit to our connection
Today and every day.
The Air –
This breath in your lungs
As life itself
Blessed Air thank you
May we remember Air
Commit to our connection
Today and every day.
The Sun –
This heat and light
As
Samhain blessings for All Souls
The leaf colours endeavour to flavour the taste of the shadows before us.
The thinned veil delivers a shiver to embrace the lives of those who came before us.
All souls held and have held.
All souls held and let go .
May we be willing in holding to release too.
May our awareness of all that is shower a justice