Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening! Give us ears that hear, Eyes that see, Wills to obey, Hearts that love, Then declare what You want, Reveal what You want, Command what You want, Change what you want! Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening! – Christina Rossetti 1830-1894AD
Father, take us to the place where we are saved from pride and arrogance and Christ’s humility is everything, where we lift up clean hands and pure hearts to You. Take us to the place where we no longer shrink in fear from the mountains before us but look upon them with joy, where we see clearly and our decisions…
Lord God … we bring you everything, and tip it out in front of you . . . And now we pause a while in silence, waiting for you to show us what we need to understand . . . – Roddy Cowie, Iona Community – New prayers from the Iona Community SKU/ISBN: 9781849525480
Holy Spirit, Mighty Breath of God, blow far from us all dark despair, all deep distress, all groundless fears, all sinful desires, all Satan’s snares, all false values, all selfish wishes, all wasteful worries. Holy Spirit, Mighty Breath of God, Breathe into us your holy presence, your living love, your healing touch, your boundless courage, your mighty strength, your perfect peace, your divine grace, your…
O Lord, I pray for grace To know what I ought to know, To love what I ought to love, To praise what delights You most, To value what is precious in Your sight, To hate what is offensive to You. Dot let me judge by what my eyes see, Or pass sentence on people because of ignorance. But teach me…
God be in head and in my understanding; God be in my eyes and in my looking; God be in my mouth and in my speaking; God be in my heart and in my thinking; God be at my end and at my departing. This traditional prayer is sometimes called ‘the Old Sarum Prayer’ and comes form a Middle…
Oh Lord! To rejoice in the eye of the storm, to laugh out loud with delight in your presence, to respond with humility and to give in love – surely there is no other way. Help me Lord, to walk humbly, to love and to be loved and to hear your words in all that surrounds. Amen
O most tender and gentle Lord Jesus, Teach us to meditate on you That we may become like you And love you truly and simply As you have loved us. Amen.
Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, You have brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see You in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Your glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that…
O God, Light of the minds that see you, Life of the hearts that love you, Strength of the souls that seek you, Enlarge our minds, Raise our vision, Give us swift wings of thought, That our spirits may hear you, Eternal wisdom, From age to age, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. – St Augustine Of Hippo 354-430AD (This…
O Lord my God, Teach my heart this day where and how to see you, Where and how to find you. You have made me and remade me, And you have bestowed on me All the good things I possess, And still I do not know you. I have not yet done that For which I was made. Teach me…
God of Heaven, Let me feel my nothingness, Not in order to despair over it, But in order to feel all the more powerfully The greatness of your goodness. – Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1865AD