Posts Tagged ‘ prayer ’

Still Waiting?

To be able to wait, and wait patiently is I think a true gift of God. Yesterday someone said of a prayer to God. ‘God give me patience… But hurry up! So typical of our prayers, expecting what we want immediately, without looking at what it is we are asking for or how we could perhaps help to achieve that goal.

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Is it just me or…

In church, at intercessions. Let us pray etc… We pray for our church (followed by a list of events going on that week) after each event, (from one or two in the congregation): Yes Lord, oh yes Jesus. Specific prayers for the alpha course and the topic coming up response: Yes Lord, oh yes Jesus. or similar Prayers for the bishop, the Anglican cycle prayers for other countries etc Silence prayers for peace workers or some other group, I forget now Silence Prayers for the community and people in the area Silence Prayers for the event at CIA followed...

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Random College Entry

  • Snow – The Gift of a Day

    As the single flake fell, the newscasters and weather reporters gasped and reached for their cameras to record the moment the first ever flake of snow fell on Britain – Because it never snows here does it? Well only every year. Once a year, pretty much give or take we get one good snow fall. You would think that everyone would be used to the snow by now. That the rail companies would have engineered tracks not to be made unusable with the ‘wrong type of snow’. But no, we don’t for a day or two the country is gripped by snow fever. The letter bombings of the past week, the skirmishes on the Israeli – lebanese border all forgotten, because there is snow. I take my hat off to Jeremy Vine of Radio 2 today. Instead of going on about how bad the snow has affected each person in the country with a blow by blow account of shovels and blankets, his program was largely about the joy of a day in the snow. It began by his own recording of his jog to work – 5 miles through the snow. Noting the beauty and differences a blanket of [...]

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