When our need is desperate, it is time to ask for God to grace our life with miracles.
Let us place our trust in him. Let us pray with confidence then and remember what
Paul says in Ephesians 3:20, for He can do immeasurably more than we could ever
imagine or hope for.
Lord,
We pray for healing
We ask in hope
We beg for a miracle,
Knowing You provide.
We trust You will hear and answer us.
Amen
Amen
Amen
We absolutely believe that love heals. A kind touch, a loving look, a warm message, all can lift our spirits an change the whole energy of the day.
How much more powerful then, must God’s Love be, when it graces our life?
There is no more powerful a place, no more wonderful an energy, than to place the person you care about in the Heart of Love, the total Love of the Holy Trinity.
This must be where miracles take place and all is healed, for there is no greater power of Love in the whole Universe.
Lord, we thank you for Loving us
We believe absolutely in Your healing Love
To help, strengthen, comfort and guide us
Especially in times of great difficulty and need
Amen
Let me be still
With You oh Lord
Help me whisper Your Holy name,
In confidence and trust,
Knowing the Word will
heal and save me.
Keep me safe this night.
Amen
The Spirit is pure Love in Action; a real Power in the world.
How can the Spirit protect us? The Spirit brings gifts that aid us, so that we can act wisely, discern truly, to help us make right decisions. The Spirit is the Messenger of God. Let us listen for the messages the Spirit brings that will help keep us safe as we walk a Holy path with God.
The Spirit brings healing on multiple levels; healing of mind, healing of body, healing of emotion, healing of spirit. And when the way ahead feels impossible, when hope is waining, the Spirit brings miracles unexpected, that can save us.
The energy of Love, uplifts us, carries us forward and energises us, empowers us with confidence. Praying in the Power of the Spirit, comforts, strengthens, renews and brings spiritual protection, especially when we pray the Our Father, the prayer of the Son to the Father, reflecting His own greatest need for protection for the path ahead: His Passion and death, which leads on to renewal, Resurrection and Life eternal.
In You we trust Lord.
Answer us now,
In ways that we can
See,
Know,
Taste,
Feel,
Recognise
as a direct response from You!
Heal .......Lord, graciously heal him/her/them
Save ...... Lord, graciously save him/her/them
Protect ...... Lord, graciously protect him/her/them
Comfort .......Lord, graciously comfort him/her/them
Strengthen .......Lord, graciously strengthen him/her/them
Restore .......Lord, graciously restore him/her/them
Renew ....... Lord, graciously renew him/her/them
Bless ...... Lord, graciously bless him/her/them!
Amen! Amen! Amen!
Flood our lives Lord,
With Your Holy Light
May we receive blessings
And healings now.
Amen
I bless the space
Where the tree once stood
A place full of grace
And beauty
Now gone
I bless the tree
That once stood in the space
And sheltered the birds
And sang to the breeze
And shimmered with light
And made our life bright
I bless all the trees
Now present or gone
That touch our lives
In unknown ways
And brighten
The most drear
Of days
I choose Mercy.
I ask that Mercy flows from The Heart of Love directly to me and heals all the wounded, unhealed, hurting parts of me.
I choose Mercy, which is greater than forgiveness and encompasses all time and space and heals, far beyond my limited perspective and imagining.
I desire to immerse myself in Mercy, hoping it will free me to forgive all and find peace.
Mercy then, is what I choose; Mercy above forgiveness. Mercy that heals all, loves all, blesses all, saves all.
It is in Mercy that I place my trust in: God's Mercy, rather than my weak human capacity to forgive.
Amen
Anointed
As we look towards Pentecost and the Coming of the Spirit, let us contemplate on what it means to be anointed with the Spirit.
To be anointed with the Love of the Holy Spirit, surely means to be touched by the Fire, the Passion, the Spirit of God Himself, to feel awakened to the Light and the Truth of God with us, moving, powerful, awesomely flowing in action. It is a blessing and a command to go out and Love in its fullest spiritual sense. It is to see the blessing of each day, filled with the Holiness of God’s Spirit.
New ears
Sometimes it is better to rely not just on what we know, on what is familiar, but to ask for new ears to hear the fullness of God’s heart and new eyes to see what is possible and new, yet to come, that we can create ourselves, with inspiration and trust, with new hope and love in our own hearts.
Lord, we ask for Your love to grace our lives.
We ask in confidence and faith,
Knowing that it is for this, Lord,
That You came into the world.
Flood our lives with Your Holy Light, oh Lord.
May we receive this healing blessing now.
Amen
The Holy Way
THE HOLY WAY HAS BEEN revealed to as our own unique path through life, immersed in the Heart of Love. It has come to us out of the bleakest of places, beyond imagining, that has been entered into profoundly and broken open.
It has renewed us as we clung on to love and a desperate hope, not born of any real possibility for change, but a need to believe in goodness, in love, in a universal tenderness and compassion that touches the deepest tragedy, the severest, unquenchable pain, the worst assault of continuing losses, the unexpected cruellest betrayals and weeping still, brings a healing to bear that helps us hold on and move toward love, even when that love is unfelt, unreachable, separated, seemingly lost.
The Holy Way is a path of love then, a path with heart and soul, a path that commits us to keep remembering who we are and who God is.
A path that commits us to see beyond the world and all its torments, disillusions, displacements and see with inner eyes the flow of Spirit, guiding, empowering, enabling, hoping, holding, uplifting, recreating, banishing all evil in its path and helping us tread another step forward, even when no steps are possible.
It is a path of faith. It is a path of light, even in the darkest place for does not God tell us through the Psalms that even in the darkest place that darkness will be to Him as light as day (Psalm 139;12). There is no place that the Light of the World cannot shine and it is in this knowledge that we place our faith as we enter on our Holy Way.
Each person will find their own unique relationship with God, by committing to their own Holy path.
Some may focus more on the Father, others on the Son, still others may be drawn to receiving the gifts and Wisdom that the Holy Spirit brings. Yet in truth they are One; when we focus on this Trinitarian relationship and find the Heart of all Three working as one, and find ourselves in this absolute point of Love never ending, there is no greater power working with us, there is no greater love possible to come to our aid.
When loss seems all encompassing
And the way ahead feels blocked,
Do not let fear or grief overwhelm you.
Push fear away.
Say to yourself that it has no place here.
For fear clouds judgement.
Pain blocks out right vision.
Tears can drain you or be a release.
Look for the tiniest speck of goodness in this moment.
Remember who you are inside yourself
Despite the suffering.
Keep trusting that things can change
However slowly
Even if you know not how or what to do
Be innerly still
And wait
For the next moment to unfold.
Perhaps it will be bring new insight
However tiny and fragile,
Remembering that you are precious
in every moment
And your presence matters
Even when you cannot see it clearly.
Hold on to hope.
Light of life
WHEN WE TALK OF Light, what do we mean? Why, we mean the inner light, the light of life that is Christ the light, the Son of the living God with us, whose spiritual energy radiates the purest light into the world and brings us to life. It is an inner light that is spiritual in nature yet also energy which resides in us. It conveys the very presence of God with us to the whole world. It can be seen innerly with spiritual practice, using the gifts of the Spirit. For those who shine Christ’s Light, it can be perceived, seen, felt, experienced.
It brings wholeness, joy, blessings, to all who are touched by it. It is often conveyed as the aura of light around the heads of saintly people and Christ Himself in works of art. Yet this Light is real for those to see who will. It is a true light that shines.
You can see the light burning in people’s eyes, when they are lifted up and on fire with the passion and direction of the Spirit. You can feel the Light touching you, shining you from the inside out. You can feel its blessing of joy, peace, hope, life.
Once touched, you feel lighter in your heart, your burdens are somehow lighter or removed altogether, your vision is clearer, light burns within you too as you are lifted up by the presence and Light of Christ.
As you feel this Light living in you, so you are drawn to prayer and praise, to authentic life in Christ. You enter more fully into communion with God and your light shines brighter in the
world. New things are possible. New pathways open up. Hope is lit in your heart. You become alive too with the light of life which burns brighter in you and cannot be extinguished.
God brings us light through unexpected ways, light can come to us. God is always communicating with us if only we open our inner eyes to see and open up our hearts to feel and allow it in. God sends us messengers of light. He is ever present and radiant in all of creation
So seek the Light and let it shine its healing within you, radiating out to touch the hearts and minds of others too. Amen
ONLY THOSE WHO SUFFER vast and complete totality of poverty can begin to understand the true mystery and meaning of God’s saving Grace: His Passion and care for the world. God begins to shine in a new way for you, bringing light in the darkness, bringing wisdom to the incomprehensible, bringing hope to the impossible.
Bringing a way, when no way is visible. This is where you find the meaning that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life and this place becomes alive with the presence of God. For this is true poverty, where my wife and I live.
On the edge of society, on the edge of heath care provision, on the edge of surviving.
Exploring deeply this seemingly dreadful place, we discover the meaning of suffering and we find Christ’s passion before us and with us and in us. Here is where Mercy is most true, most understood, most visible, most clear. This is where the physical world and the spiritual world meet. This is the meaning of the Passion.
Only God can fill each poverty for only God cares enough to lift the sufferer and carer into the Divine Power of Mercy and keep their love and lives alight where all else fails them.
Lord, lead us towards You
That we might find the truth of Your being
With us,
Precious,
Indescribable,
Present.
Lead us into the very Heart of Love
And there fill us with Your deepest peace,
Not of this world,
Which can only be a grace from God,
Amen
The Immensity of the Gift of the Son
IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to separate the Father from the Son, it is here within the heart of this relationship, this oneness of being that mercy flows and finds both its origin and its completion.
The immensity of the gift of the Son to the world and the Son’s gift of life to all through the completion of His Passion is a mystery that only can be revealed.
To see the Mercy poured out upon the Cross is to touch with wonder, the love and compassion of the Father and the Son.
The immensity of this Gift, whose meaning was is and ever shall be Mercy, is something to be seen known and experienced by the revelation of God, which is a grace and also a longing that each one of us should enter into and explore this mystery wherein which peace, comfort, strength, healing and wholeness and countless spiritual blessings can be found.
How tenderly the Father loved the Son, how tenderly the Son loved each of us and lifted us into this complete and total love, which has no definition, no words great enough to hold and confirm it, yet which He holds open to us in every moment, hoping that we will hear His invitation and become immersed in His infinite Mercy, which He gifts to us, ever presently.
Excerpt from Living in the Heart of Love
http://www.holyway.co.uk/love/Brochure.pdf
Silent Moment
early in the morning
silent moment of absolute power
explosion of light
shook the tomb
wherein you lay
Dead
then
Alive
So hard to even begin to understand
Love given out
to the very last drop of your existence
returned in splendour
essence of life
returned from its journey
made manifest once more in the world
bringing us out of utter darkness
into pure radiance of Light
No wonder the stone was rolled away
with the immanence of God
in that moment
come back into the world
to reunite us
forever
with Love.
From Love Returned by Linda Crowhurst
Excerpt from Living in the Heart of Love: The Power That Flows From the Cross
http://www.holyway.co.uk/love/Brochure.pdf
WHAT IS THE POWER which flows from the Cross? Why, it is surely and paradoxically peace. When all is agony within and without you, you must look to a deeper connection with yourself and God.
You seek that which is truly not of the world and which Jesus Himself promised to give. Peace comes flowing in beyond expectation, hope and imagination. It fills the spaces within and around you or simply floats with you, watching, waiting, gently hovering like a bird.
The Spirit brings peace and the Spirit could only be released into the world to touch each one of us through the pain and seeming destruction of the Cross. This is the paradox of love; the peace that touches and lives with you through even the most tremendous suffering.
It does not take away the pain and yet somehow it lifts and consoles and speaks of healing, hope, comfort, a way.
It brings Mercy to the fore, for who would not tenderly, mercifully, gently love the most agonised, afflicted people, somehow giving them the strength to be in the most unimaginable torment, other than God Himself, who knows pain and torment intimately and still reaches out in a bond of communion and shared intimate knowledge, to sustain and comfort, with His Peace, most definitely beyond all understanding.
IN THE IMMEDIATE STATE of agony, God may not be visible, noticeable or appear present. This is the chaos state of extreme pain and distress. Jesus himself enters this place when he calls out “Father why have you abandoned me?” This is often misrepresented by theologians as Jesus failing and by non- religious as evidence that God was not there and that Jesus was wrong and doubted. But this cannot be so. For Jesus still called out to God, His Father. He knew He would hear him.
He may have felt abandoned by the sheer weight and extremity of suffering and torture He was experiencing.
Believe me, such extreme pain blanks the mind of understanding and reason, the burden of pain is intolerable, inescapable and you do not know where to place your awareness to cope with it.
You do not know what to do, you are robbed of normal consciousness. Oddly though your awareness of yourself somehow expands. Each time I have had to endure unbearable pain or had a near death experience, rather than feeling diminished, my consciousness of me in my mind has been huge and strong.
For myself, I have learned that the only way to endure such unendurable tormenting, beyond imagining, sheer pain, is, strangely enough, to go in to it, not resist it and to become incredibly still. This then is where I have come to find God unexpectedly close and present, even in the darkest place of my mind, where I have somehow dissociated and free floated within the pain. He too is truly there and has saved me. He has not necessarily done anything obvious.
No words have been spoken, though God does speak to me and I have heard Him many times. In these profound places of extreme torment I have not heard His Voice, only sensed Him being with me. But only when I have gone right into the pain and not resisted it when there has been no resistance for the pain to react against.
When I am in the chaos of unutterable indescribable agony I cannot necessarily feel God at all.
The power of the physical experience is huge, vast and all encompassing. I cannot bear the moment I am in. There is no other moment than this one and it seems to spread out to all eternity in an eternal moment of excruciating torture.
I don’t really have the words to describe the experience. It is more than torment, more than torture, more than indescribable, more than intolerable, more than unacceptable, more than completely unbearable. It is screamingly hostile and negating.
It is barbaric in its cruelty. It is exquisitely diminishing. It is almost completely incomprehensible in its agony it is so vast, so punishing, so pure, so bleak, so empty of life and full of sensations that is beyond endurance.
It is no wonder that Jesus called out to the Father and asked why had he abandoned him. Such is the nature of that place that all awareness can be blocked except for the pain itself that pierces every cell and every space between cells, every existing fibre of being is caught up in the torturing pain.
God, who loves us still and holds us all, is helpless to help us in that place in the sense that He cannot reach us, even though he reaches out to us. He weeps for us. He weeps with us, yet the physicality of the pain is immense and unquenchable. There is no other feeling here. All focus must be on coping, on bearing the unbearable, on remaining, on the pain itself, for there is no place that is not pain. There is no place that is not agony, there is no place that is not on fire with the violence of hurt, within the physicality of the body.
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It is no wonder He may have felt like God had abandoned Him for He not only felt his own pain but must have felt all that of all mankind for all time. To imagine the weight of His burden of pain is impossible. Our own pain is too much to bear. No wonder he was rewarded with the precious Gift of life, for he loved us all in that place of non- existence till the whole universe was filled with His love, His Spirit, His Light and its power returned to him in a miraculous healing power of Love.
Love given out to the very last drop returned in splendour and power and awe and might. The light of life here with us all. The gateway opened for all time for the healing of every soul.
John’s Hope
Heart of Love
Dying for the world
Reaching out to save
All I can do
is stand by you
an onlooker on the sport of death
All I can give
I do
My heart
in all its simplicity
lies with yours
All I can hope
is that it is
some small speck of comfort
some speck of light
in the gathering darkness
which obscures
the True reality of
Your Glory
You are not alone
We hold you in our tears
We stay with you beyond the end
hoping, praying, waiting
for the New beginning.
From Love Returned by Linda Crowhurst
A Mission Of Love
Violent was the pain
Torn was the body
As He hung
in compassion
on the cross
for us
Sent by His Father
on a mission
of love
No one understood
the meaning of His sacrifice
Only the steadfast few
remained
that bleak and terrible day
when the physical heart of Christ
stopped beating
and the Temple veil was rent asunder
Such was the necessary path
to upturn evil
from its self-made throne
Such was the gift given
to restore the natural harmony
of the Universe
such were the tears
of Mary needed
for the healing of the world
and such
was the gift
of life
freely given
by
the Son.
From Love Returned by Linda Crowhurst
Hands
Hands pinioned with pain
Holding us all
With ragged tenderness
Fingers now motionless
That once touched so many
With the gentle Power
Of Healing Love
Searing pain and paralysis
What grief
Is this
Held here
For all to see
And none to notice?
An agony of labour
Still
Answering a call
Blood mingles
With the grain of wood
Stain of human sin
Reconciled for all
Time
In those timeless
Hands
Wounded for Love’s
Greater purpose.
From Love Returned Linda Crowhurst
The Point of Power
THE HEART OF LOVE is no more powerfully visibly seen and experienced, than at the centre of Christ's passion on the cross.
This is the moment when the Father holds His beloved Son, enabling the Spirit to be released into the world for all time, a Power and inspiration uncontainable and indescribable.
It is from this point of power that the font of all Mercy is born and ever flowing in an absolute outpouring of love and the gifts of the Holy Spirit are released into the world.
You may not see the Father, nor the invisible power of the Spirit at work in such a seemingly bleak and terrible place, yet it is the place where life is reborn and hope of all healing is made possible.
The freeing of the Spirit is the utter fulfillment of God's promise and enables us to experience the fullness of God's love, through immersing ourselves in the awesome wonder of the Trinity.
It is here that the Father holds the Son and the Son with the Father frees the Spirit. The Spirit can then work through us and in us in a way not possible before Jesus’ Passion on the Cross.
When I feel overwhelmed by my suffering
Lord, Still me
When I am hurting
Lord, Soothe me
When I feel ill
Lord Bless me
When I feel alone
Lord Hold me
When I feel abandoned
Lord restore me
Amen
This is a beautiful, peaceful contemplation accompanied by Greg on guitar. May it bless and uplift you. “His Love is like the morning…..” ...
