Category: Daily Prayer

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening prayers. This evening, we are going to begin our prayers with a hymn which recognises that God, our Creator, watches over everything in His world and all that happens in it. In the darkness of the still night in the dawning of the daylight, in the mystery of creation,...

Where your treasure is, there your heart will also be! Welcome friends to a day to be treasured, blessed with blue skies and warming sun. Let us begin with a song of thanksgiving! Lord of Life and the one who blesses this day with beauty, we are thankful that we can enjoy your limitless bounty. Thank...

Psalm 98 1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things; his right hand and his holy arm< have worked salvation for him. 2 The Lord has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations. 3 He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the...

Prayers for People Hurting and Distressed God of the heights and the depths, we bring to you those driven into the desert, those suffering with difficult decisions. May they choose life. God of the light and darkness, we bring to you those lost in the mist of drugs and drink, those dazzled by the use of...

Earthseed by Octavia Butler Here we are– Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind God, Shaping God. Consider— We are born Not with purpose, But with potential. All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. Good evening and welcome to Evening Prayers...

Good morning, good Cornerstone friends, on this May morning, which is struggling to stay like spring. The readings this morning are similar to those of last Sunday. I don’t want to repeat what we had then nor contradict the wisdom we received from George. I hope this does the trick. How lovely is your dwelling place,...

The lost baby poem by Lucille Clifton the time i dropped your almost body down down to meet the waters under the city and run one with the sewage to the sea what did i know about waters rushing back what did i know about drowning or being drowned you would have been born into winter...

The happiest day by Linda Pastan It was early May, I think a moment of lilac or dogwood when so many promises are made it hardly matters if a few are broken. My mother and father still hovered in the background, part of the scenery like the houses I had grown up in, and if they...

I imagine that any of you who have visited Iona will recognise the picture above. It is many years since we went there, but the atmosphere of the island made a real impression on me. I think of it still each time we have a prayer from the Iona community or use hymns written by John...

Morning Prayer in the Celtic Tradition Good morning on this last day of April – a very changeable month of cold and drought and finally refreshing rain. Today we pray in the Celtic tradition drawing on prayers from David Adam. This new day you give me from your great eternity. This new day now enfold me...

A reading from Psalm 22 25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you I will fulfil my vows. 26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord will praise him – may your hearts live for ever! 27 All the ends of the earth will...

You Are Important to God You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. Psalm 139: 3-4 LSAB Sometimes we don’t let people get to know us completely because we are afraid they will discover something about...

Lending out books by Hal Sirowitz You’re always giving, my therapist said. You have to learn how to take. Whenever you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books. You think she’ll have to see you again in order to return them. But what happens is, she doesn’t have the time...