Category: Daily Prayer

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening’s prayers. Let us pray: Thank you, loving God, for making us the people we are, and helping us to understand that we are precious in your sight. With thankful hearts, we ask you to help us appreciate all that we experience in our daily lives – the people we...

Good morning, Cornerstone People, as we rise to greet the day with thanks, as we rise to meet the day with praise. As the sun appears and the showers clear, sing a psalm of the glory of the Lord. I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me;...

A reading from Psalm 9 7 The Lord reigns for ever; he has established his throne for judgment. 8 He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity. 9 The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. 10 Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never...

Rest in the Storm ‘These things I have spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage I have overcome the world.’ John 16: 33 NASB Charles Spurgeon told a story of how, during a sudden storm, a woman on a ship became very terrified....

Good morning, good people. Today the church remembers St Richard, Bishop of Chichester eight hundred years ago, but still remembered for his loving pastoral care of his people in troubled times. Blessed are those who fear the Lord and have great delight in his commandments. Their descendants shall be mighty in the land; a generation of...

AFTER YEARS by Ted Kooser Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fell in the Cumberlands, holding only a handful of leaves, and an old woman scattering corn to her chickens looked up for an instant. At...

THE ABDUCTION by Stanley Kunitz Some things I do not profess to understand, perhaps not wanting to, including whatever it was they did with you or you with them that timeless summer day when you stumbled out of the wood, distracted, with your white blouse torn and a bloodstain on your skirt. “Do you believe?” you...

GET ORGANISED! by Douglas Malloch There may be nothing wrong with you, The way you live, the work you do, But I can very plainly see, Exactly what is wrong with me. It isn’t that I’m indolent, Or dodging duty by intent; I work as hard as anyone, And yet I get so little done. The...

GLORIOUS WORLD by Herman Hesse I feel it again and again, no matter Whether I am old or young: A mountain range in the night, On the balcony a silent woman, A white street in the moonlight curving gently away That tears my heart with  longing out of my body. Oh burning world, oh white woman...

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening’s prayers. Let’s start tonight with a hymn. I think the words of this one say it all, as they focus our minds on those things which are really important to us, but which we sometimes take for granted. ‘Think of a world without any flowers.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfMFOuYbLs Haven’t we been...

In Praise of God’s Glorious Creation In the glory of this summer morning breathe in the scented air. In the cool of this summer morning rejoice in the colour of the brilliant dawn. At the beginning of this summer morning let us take time to praise God our Creator and Sustainer. Come, Cornerstone People, and let...

A reading from Psalm 92 1 It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, 2 proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, 3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. 4 For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord; I sing...

Praise to Our Sovereign God Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Psalm 8: 1 NIV® When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends on a lovely summer morning. Today we remember St Columba from the sixth century, who established an abbey on the island of Iona, still a centre of worship and a base for a large world-wide community of faith. Like us, Columba lived in uncertain times. Hear my teaching, O my people; incline...