Category: Daily Prayer

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace....

Go peaceful in gentleness through the violence of these days. Give freely. Show tenderness in all your ways. Through darkness, in troubled times let holiness be your aim. Seek wisdom. Let faithfulness burn like a flame. God speed you! God lead you, and keep you wrapped around His heart! May you be known by love. Be...

Have you been enjoying the sunshine this week? I find that it lifts my spirits, even when I feel a bit down. Getting outside for a breath of fresh air and feeling the warmth of the sun on my back brings everything to life. When the sun shines, I see everything in more detail – this...

Good morning, friends and far-flung acquaintances! Welcome to our time of prayer this third Friday in September. Let us praise God for his night of blessed rest and the glory of this fresh new day. Hear some words from Psalm 19: The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim his handiwork. … In the...

 A reading from Paul’s letter to the Romans 13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling-block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone...

Footprints Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens you are there; if I make my bed in the depths you are there. even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. Psalm 139: 7, 8,10 NIV® Many...

Aidan’s statue, Holy Island By Andy Raine Aidan stands. His head is close to the heart of the cross. His eyes, far-seeing, scan the horizon, the joyous venturing of little boats. A torch burns clearly in his grasp, a faithful challenge in his generation, meeting, listening, heart-connecting. In his shadow is a place I covet, a...

Good morning, good Cornerstone friends. Are you ready for a new day? Behold how good and pleasant it is to dwell together in unity. It is like precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, Even on Aaron’s beard, running down upon the collar of his clothing. It is like the dew of Hermon...

My Friend Hope  By Krutika H. Deshpande  I have an invisible friend Who guides me through dark and pain. She always tells me not to give up As she believes my efforts will never go in vain. When the paths are not clear And I am surrounded by fear, She holds my trembling hands and says,...

Just Wait For The Sun By Lisa Marks When everything’s darkness And you feel so alone, When the rain doesn’t stop And you can’t make it home, When it feels all is lost And you just want to run, It can’t rain forever. Just wait for the sun. When family is pain, When friends can’t be...

Your love comes to me in the silence, ordinary. Like a child’s treasure I turn it over in the nook of my hand, warming its smooth heaviness. A thought of You, stony, clearly defined, drops as though down a deep well, is lost momentarily, then turns up a certainty in the heart. By Cathy Hutcheon  Good...

Ablate the Suncups, not the Ice: an Incantation By Francine J. Harris  O god of the desublime, allay the vertical penitentes their limbs, rest them back cold, not in precipitate but in seed, in potential of hydrogen. Spoon in density to be sung of their winter’s seed and soak. Sip pond to suncups, over sunrise. Far...

Today marks the anniversary of the horrifying terrorist attacks nineteen years ago in the USA which have become known as 9/11. Events like this shock people throughout the world, though how they feel and their thoughts about why they happen and how to address the issues which gave rise them may vary considerably. Friday is the...