At the end of the year
As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them.
Advent Prayer
Holy One,
awaken my heart,
quiet my mind,
open the door of my being
to perceive your presence.
The summer day
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is…
Prayer of Thanksgiving: Creation
This is your garden, Creator God
a thing of beauty
beyond understanding…
Springtime Prayer
O Dancer of Creation,
the earth awakens to an urgent call to grow.
In the hidden recesses of my wintered spirit
I, too, hear the humming of your voice,
calling me, wooing my deadness back to life.
A blessing for the exhausted
When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,
Time takes on the strain until it breaks;
Then all the unattended stress falls in
On the mind like an endless, increasing weight…
Lover of all
Lord, lover of life, lover of these lives,
Lord, lover of our souls, lover of our bodies, lover of all that exists . . .
In fact, it is your love that keeps it all alive . . .
Creation – a thanksgiving for Australia
God of Holy Dreaming, Great Creator Spirit,
from the dawn of creation you have given your children
the good things of Mother Earth.
Prayer of one who feels lost
Why do I keep fighting you off?
One part of me wants you desperately,
another part of me unknowingly
pushes you back and runs away.
There is something beautiful & eternal happening
May you recognise in your life the presence,
power and light of your soul.
Where you go, I will go
Where you go, I will go
Be still and wait
Our Aboriginal culture has taught us
to be still and to wait.
We do not try to hurry things up.
We let them follow their natural courses – like the seasons.