Theme “Renewal”
Good News in Troubled Times
When chill winds seem mired with sorrow,
When the tired heart dreads tomorrow,
Still your hearth may trust its embers,
Still the mind can pause, remember…
Not all hope is lost in grieving,
Not all joys are past believing.
Though blue skies grow dim with warning,
Some view dawns, fair light adorning.
While fraught news may travel
You call us out of the singularity of our everyday world
Spirit of life, love, and community, you have called us into a world of the common and the shared.
In the concerns and worries, the need, and the want of our usual comings and goings we find it hard to stop and consider deeply what we are doing. In the hurry of a working day, in
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
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
Christmas prayer
The birth of the Christmas child bears the message of hope that there can be joy and peace and goodwill. At Christmas time we can allow ourselves to believe in angels, and wise men and shepherds, and the whole night sky filled with the music of rejoicing. Let our religion be the religion of