When prayer is not so easy

Sometimes prayer feels easier than other times. Sometimes physical, emotional or spiritual pain, illness, upset, dismay, doubt, fear can get in the way of having a peaceful mind with which to feel, see, hear or sense that God is with us.

Yet this is perhaps the most needy time for prayer, because prayer can bring peace, hope, upliftment, comfort, light to a mind beleaguered by stresses, problems, worries and stuckness. 

So when I feel like this, if I can remember to be still a moment and centre myself in God’s energy, rather than my own pain-filled energy or the chaotic energy generated by the world, then I can find possibility of healing, grace, new perspective, inner calm or a new vision of an old or current difficulty or problem.

I can reach out and feel a greater connection, for in truth I am held in the Love of the Trinity, the awesome Heart of Love and one with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. How can that not bring new freedom from the tyranny of fear, the possibility of action from inaction and healing out of brokenness?

Infinitely large

IT IS SO EASY to get distracted by worries, doubts and fears. To think about what might happen. To think about so many other moments than the one I am in.

   Fear then can be magnified. Loss then can also be magnified. Frustration and anger can rise and overwhelm and destroy any peace that might be possible.

   I can worry about my health deteriorating. I can worry about dying. I can worry about so many serious possibilities. The fact that there is no one out there to help us work out what to do when my symptoms get worse, who understands my illness. I can worry about the financial situation and how we will cope, next week, next month, next year.

Yet in worrying about all the vast number of things that could go wrong, I am moving away from the peace, from the truth and the hope that is present right now.

   God brings his truth, His light, His hope, His love, His tenderness, into my present moment and it is here that I must learn to dwell. I must banish all fear in Jesus’ name and choose not to dwell in anxiety.

   When I focus on fear I lose the goodness of the moment. When I focus on God and faith and trust, He brings hope and blessings, possibilities and peace and all fear vanishes.

   It is so important to dwell in the present moment and here find that it is an infinite moment of love, where joy is possible and love is all.

   I am lifted then into the ever – present wonder of the Heart of Love, the Holy  and find that this moment is not small and insignificant but vast and full of the awesome wonder of God.

   From here I can touch the whole world with love. I can pray for souls and be connected all around the world. I can know that heaven is real and we are all held and loved and all those who have died are still with us, through the love of God.

   My world becomes infinitely large and I am blessed with the joy of knowing that I am held in the everlasting love of God and all things are possible because of His love.

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When all is taken

When all is taken away suddenly and unexpectedly 

And emptiness feels like it will consume me 

Remind me of your Perfect Presence Lord

Fill me with your healing love

That cleanses, restores, renews, strengthens, 

Blesses me anew.

Amen

Today’s blessing

Bless each precious moment, 

may they each be filled 

with love 

and flow over 

with it’s abundance.
Amen

A contemplation on the Trinity

We take a moment in time to still our thoughts as we place ourselves in the Heart of Love, from where we find peace at the centre of our being.  We feel that peace radiating out from the Heart of Love, The Mighty Trinity, as it surrounds us and blesses us, touching and filling our own heart, so that there is a oneness that we too are embraced in - a wonderful unity. And we feel blessed and centred in the totality of everything that is love.  Amen

A prayer for Mercy

A prayer for Mercy

May we feel held in Your great Mercy and Compassion Which pours endlessly out from the cross
Where you knew untold agonies in Your Passion Reaching out within and beyond space and time
To touch us in our own unique distress and pain. Only Your Love can save us
Only you can truly know
the fullness of our suffering
Bound intimately and infinitely with us Pouring out Your heart of Love
down all the years to reach us
to hold us
to heal us
to comfort us
to save us
May we receive the blessing of Your Gift right now
May we find healing and Hope
And a light that shines in the darkest hour.
May we be transformed by the Power of the Holy Spirit.
May we be transfigured as we look upon your beautiful face.
May we be renewed and strengthened by all that is good.
May we be brought to new Life in You.
May the flame of Light you ignite in us
Be a tiny spark reaching back to give you Hope
and certainty of knowledge
that we have seen
and we have heard
and we have received Your blessing
and been strengthened in our faith
by Your total sacrifice for us,
That in Your final hour upon the cross
You might have felt us touching you
as You touched us
in oneness and wonder
for all eternity.
Amen

Easter Day - a Blessing