“English” language resources
Meditation for Spring
Spring is the season of renewal and promise and hope.
In the natural world outside our doors,
the annual frenzy of growth is evident all around us –
in the woods, and the parks, and the gardens,
alongside the paths our feet walk,
the clean white blossom of blackthorn and hawthorn in the hedgerows,
the
Meditation for Winter
As the days shorten, and Christmas
and the Winter Solstice draw near,
It is time to follow the wisdom of the trees.
This season should be one of
stillness, darkness, dormancy, and rest.
Humankind was not created
to be constantly on the run –
like all created beings,
we need to remember to take time out
Dewi Sant’s Little Things
Dewi Sant’s last words were:
Brothers and sisters, be joyful and keep your faith, and do the little things that you heard and saw from me. And me, I’ll will take the road that our fathers went on…
Dewi Sant’s Little Things
Not the sound of a harp but the sound of a harp-string
Not great oaktrees
Te Deum Laudamus
We praise you O God:
unfailing friend and guide
Through whose creative presence:
day by day the cosmos comes alive.
We imagine angels:
praising you on high,
Where cherubim and seraphim:
continually cry:
Holy, Holy, Holy:
Highest, Truest, Best;
Heaven and earth:
are overflowing with your grace.
We picture the apostles:
casting down their golden crowns.
The martyrs
In prayer we look back at a year gone by
In prayer we look back at a year gone by.
There have been triumphs, sometimes disasters and often periods of quietness and inertia.
We have gained and possibly lost.
We have promised and fulfilled, promised and not fulfilled.
We have known moments of joy and moments of sadness.
Our year has been better or worse
Theodore Parker Redux : writings adapted from Prayers by Theodore Parker The British and Foreign Unitarian Association Essex Hall 1910
Supreme Love, that needs nothing other than recognition, may we all enter into your presence. We are held in awe, open to understanding ever more as Wisdom. Together we can inspire justice, be heartened by love and blessed by our communion. Supreme Love we know that there is no requirement for sacrifice, no false or
The Days That Are Gone
“Thank you for the days, those endless days,
those sacred days you gave me.”
– ‘Days’, The Kinks (1968)
Thank you for the days that are gone:
for the days of hope,
for the days of resolution to save the world,
when, by striving, we’d make it true.
Thank you for the beauty.
Thank you for the
Another Prayer for Peace
Psalm 122:6, Luke 19:42, Matthew 5:9
With the Psalmist we
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.”
With Jesus we say,
“If only you had known this day the way that leads to peace.”
We pray for the peace of
Gaza and of Lebanon, of Israel and Iran,
of Syria and Sudan, of Russia and Ukraine…
We pray for the