A blessing for Light

 I pray to the Lord

And hold all things to the Light of Christ

All fears

All doubts

All worries

All hurts

I hold them up for blessing and restoration

Trinity

 

In Truth we are held in the Love of the Trinity, the awesome Heart of Love and therefore we are 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.  

Faith: a huge strength

 Caring can be a long term commitment. Friends, family, neighbours often walk away over time. This may be painful, sad, frustrating, annoying, but true. Being the best carer you can be, does not mean you have to pretend not to have feelings, to not look after yourself, to not be upset too at all the long term losses and necessary changes forced on you by the illness.

There is no magic wand to take way the terrible suffering and grief you may carry or witness. If you have any sort of faith or system of belief, this can be a huge strength to help get you through some of the most difficult, painful moments.

(From: "Caring For ME : A Pocketbook Course For Carers "https://stonebird.co.uk/CARE/) 

Caring: a sincere commitment of love and compassion

 It is intricately complicated, learning how to live and communicate with someone whose communication pathways are broken on every level.

The one who cannot think, move, remember, speak, write, tolerate sound or movement, easily or at all, is drawn into a potentially fraught and delicate relationship with the other: If the person has to wait in agony, so you too need to learn to wait, patiently and peacefully, hopefully, despite any personal frustration or need.

If the person cries out, you feel it deep in your guts. If the person is suddenly confused, you too experience the uncertainty of confusion, not knowing exactly what is required. If the person is cross or distressed, it breaks your heart.

A fragile relationship is born over time, one that wends a path between silence, stillness, movement and sound.That path is not easy to navigate, it can only be entered upon when guided by a true heart and the most sincere commitment of love and compassion.

(Adapted from "More Notes For Carers" https://stonebird.co.uk/morenotes/index.html)

Living the Mystery of Hope; a new article

 

We are delighted that the July/August Edition of the Faith Companion has an article by us called Living the mystery of Hope.

Here is a short extract from the article:

‘In order to find hope, particularly  in the most desperate of places Christ teaches us to see with new eyes,  to hear with new ears. It may feel as if things are dire and getting worse, yet in God we can always find Hope. We  may never be able to define hope but we can feel it and  live in its mystery.

When all roads seem empty, even when light is fading, may we hold on with all strength to hope, not the hope of achievement or the hope of gaining something specific, but much more than that; let us hold on to the hope that God brings to us,  to the inner peace, not of the world and  to the fundamental sense of our internal goodness, of life, of love, of beauty.’

For people unable to afford to purchase the Faith Companion it is possible to subscribe for a free  E-copy.

https://www.thefaithcompanion.co.uk/free-subscription

Healing prayer to the Holy Spirit

Come Holy Spirit, come.

May the Holy Spirit come upon you now

Heal and save you,

Restore you to full health,

Comfort, shield and protect you,

Remain with you

Inspiring you 

And guiding you 

Always

Amen

Our Father

 What I love more than anything about the prayer, of the Our Father, is that it is, first and foremost, Jesus own prayer to His Father, asking that His Father bring Him safe passage through the Path of the Passion that He is about to fully embrace with total intent and awareness, but it is more than this because it is also a prayer for all of us to pray, through any suffering in our lives, because Jesus intimately includes us, by saying ‘Our Father’……he is praying as human to the Divine, knowing that the road to the Cross is going to be brutal. The prayer brings light, comfort strength, truth to the situation and blesses it with love.