Matilda considers the importance of Music and the Arts in our worship and prayers – how the creativity of musicians and artists offers us glimpses of God’s beauty. Tilly offers prayers of thanks and blessings for all creative people who fill our world with their vision, joy, sense of hope and inspiration. She asks that...
Ann’s Morning Prayer and she considers hope as a tangible reminder that hope acts as an unbreakable spiritual lifeline. Ann also thanks our Lord for the gift of family and friends and asks that they are held in our hearts as one of the most precious things we have in our lives. Ann prays for...
Ali E’s turn to read Evening Prayer as she considers times when it is right to be angry, in order to change the world for the better – particularly in the light of recent child abuse cases. Ali contemplates salvation and how Christ frees and redeems us.
Morning Prayer and Ann rejoices in the gift of this new day and for the silence of nature that reflects the divine peace and hope of our Creator God. If tempted by despair we know that Christ is with us – our hope and refuge.
Evening Prayer and Matilda contemplates the delicious joy of each new day. She prays that we will make the most of tomorrow, that we will share our new songs of God’s love and hope throughout this world, and that we will endure days of sorrow with God’s love.
Ann’s considers the passing of Christmas and prays for Christians in our Morning Prayer. She asks God to bless all his servants whose trust is in Christ and prays for all who are sick or live in torment. Ann considers the wellbeing of all we have been asked to pray for recently and entrusts them...
We consider the Word of God – from the beginning, revealed by prophets or shown through the humblest service to others, or revealed through a tiny child – alive from the beginning of beginnings to eternity. A mother and daughter team take it in turns to read our Evening Prayer this week.
Ann reads our Morning Prayer and asks that God increase our fellowship with all living things – so that we see animals that share the earth with us as God’s creatures – and that the song of the earth rising to God is one of sweetness and not one of nature’s effort to survive. Ann...
Matilda thanks God for nature in our Evening Prayer – for healing rain, for beams of sunlight that fall softly on a child’s face, for butterflies and flowers, birds and fish, stars and trees, and for all beautiful things created by our Lord. Matilda prays that God’s children see and wonder at these, and that...
Ann reads our first Morning Prayer this week – she prays that God perfect us in love, that we may conquer all selfishness and hatred of others and fill our hearts with joy. Ann asks our Lord to be our helper and protector; to save those who are ill in mind and body; to have...
