A prayer of protection

When I feel I am being spiritually assaulted I pray this prayer.

 I banish all evil in Jesus name.

I live in hope and trust in him. Amen

I also pray the most holy of prayers, the Our Father, given to us directly by Jesus: a prayer of protection 

and safe passage through temptation and all that is evil. Amen.

Put Out Into The Deep

 

Our experience has surely taught us that there is a time to hope, to pray and to believe in miracles and healing and that there is also a time to let go and accept the path opening up ahead, trusting in God’s goodness always ultimately to prevail in some mysterious way.

Put Out into the Deep

 

Put out into the deep dear friend.

Put out deep and trust in the Lord

Immerse yourself in His Spirit

For you will then travel a new path,

You will find a new way,

Abundant with Love

Guided by Truth

Inspired by His Wisdom,

For, He says,

My Way is always Light.

My Way is always True.

My Way is always Love

And above all, My Way is filled with Mercy.

Therefore feel safe as you journey.

Be of good peace in your heart.

Trust in that which is yet to come.

Be filled with compassion for each other.

My Love knows no bounds.

Remember that I am always with you

And thus, you cannot fail to find me.

So put out into the depth of your own heart, dear friend

And Know that I am with you.

Amen

Waiting

Waiting is not always an easy thing to do , though it is something that those of us who suffer, in multiple different ways, come to know well. It can be agonising, irritating, frustrating, yet also exciting, peaceful and many other things besides. It is definitely something that we  can all experience differently. It does not always feel like a blessing, yet if we can hold on to the Peace of God while we wait and focus not so much on the waiting but on the beauty and goodness of the present moment, it can help.

So how do we wait with God?

We can  wait in contemplation and prayerfulness.  And in our contemplation we may discover that we are held in the silence of waiting. But if we listen carefully, perhaps we can hear the still small voice of Love, whispering to be patient, whispering that Love will Triumph and the Power of the Spirit will be released to Bless the world and all our lives in unseen, unknown, unexpected even unhoped for ways.

Let us wait then in Hope and anticipation. Let us listen for Love. Amen

How?

 

Getting through the impossible moments when you are faced with life-altering severe illness, demands a high degree of self-reflection, honesty and understanding.

For the last thirty years my wife and I have had to live within a context of unimaginable, endless physical torment and multiple hypersensitivities with no cure, no standard treatment pathway, no way to physically alleviate her intense, ongoing suffering.

Learning how to care and learning how to live, then, has had to be our focus. Much more than just seeking to survive or cope, we want to grow together and live our marriage to the fullest possible extent.

Individually different, the challenges we face are jointly the same.

How can we stay connected, loving, flowing in this agonising, intolerable situation that we find ourselves in, not just for a minute, not just for a day, week, month or even a year, but instead, for ever?

That is overwhelming unless you take it a moment at a time.

The challenges I face as a husband, go way beyond learning “how to care” for my wife, rather they are about how to live a whole "caring" life.

Within the shifting realities of an illness, which at the drop of a hat, literally rips away from her all and any ability and forces her into a tortured, paralysed existence, the challenge for my wife is how to be her self.

How do you maintain motivation, enthusiasm, direction, hope in this situation?

How do you stay skilled, up to date, endlessly creative in your approach and shared time together ?

How do you grow as a couple, not just as a carer and person needing care, how do you live your marriage?

Particularly, how, despite everything taken away, do yo

Jesus Christ Light of the World

 

 Jesus  Christ is the Light of the world . What a wonderful Truth . It is central  to knowing and being in relationship with Jesus: He is the Light. What does this  actually mean? It probably means different things to us all. What is important that Christ's Light is pure and leads us to Truth. It shows us the Way to Love and as Light is energy it is a very real medium for feeling and knowing and truly experiencing the presence of God. 

When we do not know what to do,  we can ask Christ to come closer - to shine His Light for us. We can ask that the Truth of a situation be illumined for us by His Presence. We can hold people  and situations, ourselves even , in this very real presence of Light and feel it make a difference to our lives and those of the people we pray for. We can ask to see Christ  more clearly in our daily life .

We may experience His Light differently, but we can be sure of His Presence and that His Light is real . We can know that we will be touched in some radiant way by asking Christ into our lives. The impact may be subtle, perhaps a lifting of feeling, a strengthening of spirit , a clarity of vision, a lighting of the way to go, or more dramatic - a radical answer to prayer , a miracle of healing and hope, a transformation of a situation beyond our wildest dreams.

Let us ask  that Christ will shine His light in our lives this day and always, bringing us the gifts of the Spirit to bless us and everyone we know and pray for. Let us ask that beauty , Love and Truth be illumined in the world and lead to hope and transformation, Let us ask to experience His Light and  feel the radiance of His healing  Light  touch our lives. Let us celebrate that Christ is the Light of the world and that Light is with us now and always.   Amen

Christ’s Light

 

Christ's Light brings the possibility of transformation and tenderness to is. He says to me : “Look to me, for I am here, I shine brightly for you and I hold you all. Come and be blessed. Come and feel safe, feel the love and the light gently touching your life. Feel renewed and strengthened.. Let your hearts be glad. Let your hearts be a shrine to my Light. Let that Light bring a blessing to all those who you love and those you meet on the way.

Amen.

Peace

 

My experience of God is not one that is found through the prism of life in all its business, interaction or out and about through fellowship in the community, for my life is one of isolation and separation, simply to survive. My experience, then, is one, rather, of silence, withdrawal, limitation, inability, pain, negation and indescribable agony, going on for decades. It is one of necessary silence and enforced stillness, brought about by continual, unpredictable, repeated brutalising paralysis and pain so vast that its intensity is unimaginable and its continuity over so many many years, flabbergasting.

  Into this life, my God has come, gentle, bright, warm, present, compassionate, encouraging, inspiring and uplifting. His peace, truly not of this world, is the gift He brings. A peace that flows around, between, within each painful moment and infills all my being with His Love. It is vast, ever flowing, gentle yet strong, here yet there and everywhere at once. 

  It becalms me. It strengthens my heart and keeps me safe. It blesses me in its tenderness. It encourages my faith and knowledge. It keeps me in the present moment, rather than in the loss of the past or the fear or longing of the future. 

  It stills me in my distress. It is golden and resonates with beauty. It is all that sustains me through every moments trial and bodily torment.

When I lose awareness of it, I am battered. When I find it, it is everything, for it lives in me and I become one with God in it and He is ever-present in me.