Category: Prayer
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Ground Presence
Grounding Presence YouTube link A simple grounding practice engaging the senses — helping you centre and bring yourself to stillness. Practices like this can help us centre as we seek to be still and become aware of God’s with us in this present moment.
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Breath prayer (animated)
Breath Prayer link: YouTube If you interested to find out more about contemplative prayer — this video interview with the Franciscan Fr Richard Rohr maybe helpful:
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The prayer of Collect – a variant for today
Almighty & Loving God, our hearts are wide open before you, all our desires known — nothing hidden from you; Bathe our hearts and minds in Your Spirit. We invite Your new creation work in us. So that our love for You may deepen and grow, and our lives may express worship and honour to…
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When you feel like you’ve lost God…
“I saw it for what it really was. In a dark night of the soul, you feel like you’ve lost God. You haven’t. Rather, you’ve lost all the little gods to which you were attached and to which you’d assigned lordship. Then what you’re left with is a void, but it’s not a void that…
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Serenity prayer
The Serenity Prayer is attributed to the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. It was was adopted and popularised twelve-step programs, and has been used in churches across the world. I particularly appreciate the most well-known version of the prayer with its later inclusion of the word “grace”. I find the prayer helpful particularly after I’ve given…
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Annunciation
She wasn’t ready for this.She may have been sleeping,Or just waking up. Me? She asksBut I’m still young,No one notices me much. You are seen,Declares the light.Seen and trustedTo carry and to bring to birthThe Light of Creation. Then may it be soShe quietly respondsWondering what her yes will mean. If she looked around She would…
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Breath prayer, after Psalm 34 (lectionary, All Saints)
I live and breathe God…My lungs expand with praise” from Psalm 34.1&2 (MSG) I take a deep breath now.Every moment a gift from you.Every expansion of my frame honours you.Every inhale a thanksgiving.I breathe out in grateful-trust. I continue,I breathe in, “I thank you”And exhale, “I trust you (to provide)” Each inhale a gift.Each exhale…