An occasional and hopefully seasonal selection of prayers. This is a resource which I hope readers will contribute to. Do email your contributions - all those used will be credited

An intercession leading up to Easter:

Forty days alone, a wilderness of thoughts, tempting and inviting thoughts which could so easily have distracted you from your task, your mission, your vision.
Yet you emerged, stronger and more attuned to all that had to be done, despite a time constraint that to our eyes would have seemed hopeless.
We too live in stressful times. Demands are made of our time that leaves so little for the important things of life. We are so easily distracted in the wilderness of our lives, by every call to go this way or that, to turn stone to bread, leap from mountains and do all that would keep us from the truth.
We listen to the voices of this world and ignore the one who endured all this and so much more, and emerged triumphant that we might not have to suffer so.
Forgive us, Father when we get distracted from our task, our mission. Forgive us those times when we try to be all things to all men, and fail to be anything.

A Prayer for Spring

When you created this world and all that exists upon it, and breathed your life-giving breath upon those first organisms, did you get a thrill as that first flower bloomed?
Was it exactly as you had designed it?
We buy our seeds in packets, drawn by the promise of a photograph or drawing, aided by books and TV programmes and yet still marvel when those first seeds germinate, grow and eventually burst into flower. You had no such help in planning your garden and yet achieved perfection.
I look at any wayside bank and see a herbaceous border balanced in size and colour.  I see the broad sweep of a hillside and the subtle shades of green transform through the season to give a breadth of colour that any garden designer would be proud to have created.
Thank you for Springtime, Creator God, and for the inspiration it provides to me, a gardener.

A Blessing

May God the Creator grant you the insight to see the beauty that exists both in city and in countryside, sometimes in hidden places.
May Jesus the Saviour grant you the courage to share your faith with others, and the wisdom to know when the time is right
May the Holy Spirit grant you the wisdom to see the good in others, the knowledge that all love has its origins in the Godhead, and the understanding that your love extends to all that you have created.

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