What I love about God
Last Sunday we looked at prayer and pondered that a good place to start is not to ask for things but simple to say how much God means to us. We brainstormed some of things, putting them on the post-it notes on a board, and used that as a starting point to pray: Security His justice Creativity (and him giving that to us as a gift) Faithful Never changes Sense of humour Variety He is the greatest mathematician Continual forgiveness He is an artist Guides Constant Generosity Persistent Abounding grace His kindness His humour The freedom to be myself and accept who I...
Read MoreA prayer in changing times
As a community we turned 9 years old this weekend. We are under going significant change at the moment as Fran our leader made the decision to step down at the end of this year and so inevitably we have to look to the future and how things might be formed in the new year. We had a community meal together on the Sunday just gone to start to talk through what this might start to mean as some of us gather as a steering group to pray and think things through. We shared in communion and remembered that while things around us change God’s love is constant; we prayed this prayer: God is...
Read MoreA wedding feast prayer
A prayer I wrote for the wedding breakfast of my sister-in-law and her now husband last weekend, a big shout out to Brennan Manning for his theology in writing it: Lord God, as we sit at the beginning of this feast we thank you for bringing us together. We are concious of those we have lost and the love we have shared with them in past times. We pray for those who cannot be here at present, who long to join with us in this moment. We thank you we can share today in the love shared by Helen and Gavin. That in seeing them it reminds us that you are love. We remember it was was you who gave us...
Read MoreA community prayer for the coming months
We are starting a series looking at what it means to connect with God. Part of this was to come up with what that means for us right now, looking at some of the things that help us and what makes it difficulty. We put these together in a prayer we will be using in our community walk: Lord God we ask you to help us to connect to you, We know you are more than we can ever imagine, You take us as we are, bored, lonely, in any mood Even when we fail to concentrate and you feel far off We meet you in times of change and crisis, and wrestle with you in the darkness of doubt and all that...
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