Category: Daily Prayer

Good evening, friends. Welcome to our Friday evening prayer time. I’m one of those who has been living a very different life for the last five months or so. From having a diary filled with appointments and meetings, out of the house for at least a couple of days a week, and parts of other days,...

Good morning, Cornerstone Family and Friends. Welcome to the conclusion of a hot and steamy, wet and stormy week. Let’s begin with a reading from 1 John 4: 7–16. My dear friends, let us love one another, because the source of love is God. Everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God, but...

Psalm 138 1 I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart;   before the ‘gods’ I will sing your praise. 2 I will bow down towards your holy temple   and will praise your name   for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree   that it surpasses your fame. 3 When I called, you...

Between Nothingness and Eternity  by Sri Chinmoy  Barren of events, Rich in pretensions My earthly life. Obscurity My real name. Wholly unto myself I exist. I wrap no soul In my embrace. No mentor worthy Of my calibre Have I. I am all alone Between failure And frustration. I am the red thread Between Nothingness And Eternity....

I will lift up my eyes to the hills The Book of Psalms is at the centre of the Bible. This collection of songs and prayers expresses the heart and soul of humanity. There are five main themes displayed in the Psalms: Praise, God’s Power, Forgiveness, Thankfulness and Trust. Psalms 120–134 are referred to as ‘songs...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. A new day with new opportunities. What shall we ask for: comfort or challenge? Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord, Lord hear my voice; let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication. If you, Lord, were to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who...

Heavy  By Hieu Minh Nguyen  The narrow clearing down to the river I walk alone, out of breath my body catching on each branch. Small children maneuver around me. Often, I want to return to my old body a body I also hated, but hate less given knowledge. Sometimes my friends—my friends who are always beautiful &...

Assiduously By Claudia Castro Luna From a coffee cup’s sweet bitterness into cold wind swept knowing that the place you search and yearn for is nowhere, no street names, no city gate. No degrees nor longitudinal measures to speak of. A compass can be useless when you are lost. Nowhere multiplies in your chest ravenous, like yeast....

Selah  By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers after Margaret Walker’s “For My People”  The Lord clings to my hands after a night of shouting. The Lord stands on my roof & sleeps in my bed. Sings the darkened, Egun tunnel— cooks my food in abundance, though I was once foolish & wished for an emptied stomach. The Lord drapes me with...

Duplex: Black Mamas Praying By Antoinette Brim-Bell Black Mamas stay on their knees praying. Cursing the lies folks tell ‘bout how the world don’t need you— “The world don’t need you” is a lie folks tell themselves when they step over blood gelled black and slick. Folks step over black blood gelled and slick to get...

As we are a scattered congregation at present, in many ways our relationship with some members of our own congregation has become similar to our relationship with other Christians world-wide – we know that we have a common bond in Christ, but we have little other direct contact with one another. Fortunately, some of us are...

Good morning Cornerstone Family, friends and visitors. I hope this break in the hot weather has brought you some relief and a good night’s sleep. Let’s give thanks together and prepare for the day ahead. On May 1st I offered morning prayers on the theme of HOPE, using my tiny pumpkin seedling as illustration—Well, here we...

A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 6 A voice says, ‘Cry out.’   And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’ ‘All people are like grass,   and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. 7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,   because the breath of the Lord blows on them.   Surely the people are grass. 8 The...

God Will Wipe away Our Tears God Himself will be with them and be their God, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 21: 3–4 What do you call a drop of water that contains mucin, lipids, lysozyme, lactoferrin, immunoglobulins, glucose, urea, sodium and potassium? It’s a tear. All land mammals (except...