Lord, I thank you deeply for the gifts and graces which you surround me with every day. They are not deserved but a source of constant delight and joy. I focus on my daily timetable racing from one meeting to the next, trying to prepare for everything and nothing is more than fleeting. Your gifts and grace Lord are everywhere and always. Thank you Lord for helping me to notice the everlasting outside the temporary. Amen. Continue reading March 15th Lenten journey

Lord, Passion Sunday behind us, Palm Sunday ahead of us, we are hurtling towards Holy Week. Too soon I seem to think. Too soon, I have not yet learned enough from this lenten journey. It must have felt like that. Too soon you are drawn to Jerusalem and the foretold Cross. I pray for all those who so desperately want more time to learn and to live. Amen Continue reading March 14th Lenten journey

Lord, I get the feeling that this journey has just been a series of pauses, rather than progress in some way. Am I moving towards you or simply settling in to a new routine? How do I find the way-markers to follow? How do I recognise the direction from the diversions? As I ask this, I know you are telling me I must keep looking and you will accompany me through the difficult paths. Forgive my doubts Lord. Amen Continue reading March 12th Lenten journey

Lord, the trees are starting to grow fat with buds, and new flowers remind us of your plans for the world, that whatever is going on in our little lives, your creation finds its balance and continues to grow. Help us to keep a little perspective on our lives. To make plans and try to do and give what we can, but also to know that your purpose overshadows our actions. We may interfere at times, but your way will stand firm. Amen Continue reading March 8th Lenten journey

Lord, we bring so many to your attention by our thoughts and prayers, there is so much healing to be done in the world. Heal us Lord, make us whole in your sight and give us the strength to cope with grace when we are sick in mind, body or spirit. Amen Continue reading March 7th Lenten journey

Lord, on Mothering Sunday we think afresh of you in terms of what motherhood involves. Yes the love, and kindness and gentleness, which it would do us so much good to follow. But also the hard decisions of mothers, who must do what is best for their children even when that hurts. The bitterness of loss felt by so many grieving mothers. The courage of the mothers of the church. All this in you Lord. Amen Continue reading March 6th Lenten journey

Lord, as the words of the Bible flow into and out of my life, help me to catch hold of precious thoughts, of spiritual sense, glimpses of you. Help me to share that sense with others as gifts of grace. Amen Continue reading March 5th Lenten journey

Lord, conversation sometimes takes rather more effort than we would like. Yet conversation with others is the way we can share your gospel and the way we can pay attention to others. Help me to make more of an effort with conversation, forgetting childish shyness and making the first step where it is needed. Amen Continue reading March 4th Lenten journey

Lord, people who love you bring passion to their arguments and often see themselves as the only right defender of your truth or the right way. Help me always to remember the need for humility. I am not always right, and neither are others, but we all love you and need to sort out our disagreements knowing that you do not countenance quarrel among your followers. Amen Continue reading March 3rd Lenten journey

Lord, when days and nights are full to bursting with activity, with deadlines, with demands, not just from work and home but church family too, help me to seek out your moments of calm, which keep me grounded in the centre of storms. Amen Continue reading March 2nd Lenten Journey