Category: Daily Prayer

Last Sunday, we celebrated Harvest. I don’t know how you felt, but if, like me, you joined the service on the internet, rather than in church, it may have  seemed very strange not to be in the Worship Area, looking towards a Harvest display. Before we moved to Milton Keynes thirty years ago, I had always...

Good morning on this fresh autumn day! We can be thankful for the refreshment of night, the soft October light, the crisp chill of early day and the excitement of a busy Friday just beginning. Give thanks to the Lord for she is good and her mercy endures forever. Her unfailing love reaches to the heavens,...

A reading from Peter’s First Letter 1 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them – not because you must, but because you are willing,...

Renewing our Minds Morning by morning He wakens me and opens my understanding to His will. Isaiah 50: 4b The season of autumn is typically one of new beginnings and fresh starts. Children going to school for the first time; many advancing from primary to secondary school; first-year university students looking forward to beginning their programme...

Give me a candle of the Spirit, O God, as I go down into the deeps of my being. Show me the hidden things, the creatures of my dreams, the storehouse of forgotten memories and hurts. Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name. Give me freedom...

Good morning Cornerstone friends. It looks like being a dry day after all that wind and rain over the weekend. A number of my favourite dog walks are now under several inches of water so my morning choices are limited. I hope that all of you are not feeling too limited in your life and activities....

When I look at the blood all I see is love, love, love. When I stop at the cross I can see the love of God. But I can’t see competition. I can’t see hierarchy. I can’t see pride or prejudice or the abuse of authority. I can’t see lust for power. I can’t see manipulation....

First Leaf By Lia Purpura  That yellow was a falling off, a fall for once I saw coming — it could in its stillness still be turned from, it was not yet ferocious, its hold drew me, was a shiny switchplate in the otherwise dark, rash, ongoing green, a green so hungry for light and air...

Many a ship has sailed from port to port with no interference from Me, because Strong Will has been at the wheel. Multitudes of pleasure cruises go merrily on their ways, untouched by the power of My hand. But you have put your life into My keeping, and because you are depending on Me for guidance...

Once you’ve heard a child cry out to heaven for help, and go unanswered, nothing’s ever the same again. Nothing. Even God changes. But there is a healing hand at work that cannot be deflected from its purpose. I just can’t make sense of it, other than to cry. Those tears are part of what it...

In 2007, the United Nations agreed to adopt 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, as the International Day of Non-Violence. So, on this Friday evening, I will use some words of Gandhi to inform our prayers. Let us pray: Loving God, as we come to you in prayer this evening, we thank you for all that...

Good Morning on this first Friday in October when we welcome a time of change and movement, a time of completion and soft morning light. Let us greet the Lord as we begin the day. Great Creator and Preserver of Life, we thank you for the restful night and the opportunity brought by this morning’s light....

A reading from Psalm 19 1 The heavens declare the glory of God;   the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech;   night after night they reveal knowledge. 7 The law of the Lord is perfect,   refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy,   making wise the simple. 8 The precepts...

Readings for Harvest As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and Winter, day and night will never cease. Genesis 8: 22 NIV® There are a number of psalms in the Bible which celebrate the Harvest Festival. Thanksgiving psalms express praise to God who hears and forgives faults, blesses and saves;...