For inner peace and calm

For inner peace and calm

by | Nov 9, 2020 | Prayers & Reflections

Holy Spirit, please encircle me,Come hold me safe and secure.Wrap my mind up with your truthGuide my thoughts and calm my fears.Steady my emotions,Lord that you would guide my feelings,May I not be overcome by upset.Sustain my soul, With vision for the...
Hope

Hope

by | Nov 9, 2020 | Prayers & Reflections

Authentic hope is not optimism. There is an invitation to surrender our expectations and trust God. Eric Fromm said,  To hope means  to be ready    at every moment  for that which is not yet born  and yet  not become desperate ...
Sounds of the Eternal

Sounds of the Eternal

by | Nov 7, 2020 | Prayers & Reflections

A poem by John Philip Newell Early in the morning I seek your presence, O God, not because you are ever absent from me but because often I am absent from you at the heart of each moment where you forever dwell. In the rising of the sun, in the unfolding colour and...