Category: Daily Prayer

It’s Fine Today By Douglas Malloch   Sure, this world is full of trouble I ain’t said it ain’t. Lord, I’ve had enough and double Reason for complaint; Rain and storm have come to fret me, Skies are often gray; Thorns and brambles have beset me On the road — but say, Ain’t it fine today? What’s the...

Good morning on this last day of September. It is Michaelmas, a church feast with a secular marking of the end of a quarter of the year and a traditional time for paying agricultural rents and preparing for winter. It feels a bit like winter after the warm weather we have had earlier in September. As...

Let everything that has life, let everything that has breath give all the glory and honour and praise to the One who overcame death. Let every living thing sing of the mercies of our God. Let us exalt Him wherever we live with thanksgiving and joy in our hearts. If we don’t praise Him, the mountains...

The Invitation By Oriah Mountain Dreamer  It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love...

What Life Should Be By Pat A. Fleming    To learn while still a child What this life is meant to be. To know it goes beyond myself, It’s so much more than me. To overcome the tragedies, To survive the hardest times. To face those moments filled with pain, And still manage to be kind....

The True Meaning Of Life By Pat A. Fleming The Years have passed by, In the blink of an eye, Moments of sadness, And joy have flown by. People I loved, Have come and have gone, But the world never stopped, And we all carried on. Life wasn’t easy, And the struggles were there, Filled with...

Good evening everyone. How are you feeling today? Perhaps, like me, your heart sank when you heard the news that the virus was taking hold again. Sometimes, when we do not understand why things are happening, we find ourselves questioning the actions of other people, but at other times we turn to God, and ask ‘Why?’...

The Beginning of Autumn Good morning to all my Cornerstone family and friends on this last Friday in September at the beginning of Autumn! Psalm 92 begins: ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord and to make music in your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your...

A reading from Psalm 78 1 My people, hear my teaching;   listen to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth with a parable;   I will utter hidden things, things from of old – 3 things we have heard and known,   things our ancestors have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their descendants;   we...

Some Approaches to Prayer I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.’ The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him. Lamentations 3: 24-25 NIV® In going through this fraught and bewildering period of our lives, even among Christians we might...

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so....

Morning Prayer Good morning good Cornerstone friends and followers. I am enjoying a change of surroundings on the Suffolk coast, but have my phone to follow our daily prayers while away. However, I am told that the wi-fi connections where we are staying and in most of these parts of Suffolk are a little uncertain so...

TOUCH THE EARTH (ONCE AGAIN)  By Juan Felipe Herrera  This is what we do: this is what the cotton truck driver does: this is what the tobacco leaf roller does: this is what the washer-woman & the laundry worker does: this is what the grape & artichoke worker does: not to mention the cucumber workers —...

Primero Sueño, First Dream: On Crossing, A Whitmanesque By Desirée Alvarez  What is it then between us? ¿Qué es entonces entre nosotros? My horse is afraid of you and both of us are thirsty. Stone face, we crossed the seas from Spain, I’ve been riding for days past pyramids in Mexico. Whatever it is, it avails...