This space is offered as a gentle invitation to share your intentions and to join in holding others in prayer. Whether your request is personal or one you’d like the community to lift up, know that each prayer is received with reverence and confidentiality. Together, we create a circle of light and compassion through our shared prayers.
Prayer connects us to one another and to the Divine presence that holds us all.
Prayers for Reflection
These prayer practices are offered as gentle guides to help you connect more deeply with the Divine in your daily life.
Patient Trust Prayer
by Teilhard de Chardin, SJ.
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability— and that it may take a very long time.
Together in
Spirit and Prayer
Here we lift one another in prayer, trusting that each intention is received with love and held in the light of the Divine. Thank you for joining this circle of care.
We wait in the dawn
Until Your light is within us
Lord, let your deep joy
Shine out from our eyes
Grant that your wisdom
Will inspire us with brightness
Let the splendour of your glory
Glow out through our actions
Come and burn within us
Until we radiate your light
Capture our cold hearts
Set us ablaze with your love
Change us and we shall changed
Lord, fill us with the light of life...
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If anyone were to ask life for a thousand years: 'Why are you living?'—if it could answer, it would only say: 'I live because I live.' That is because life lives from its own ground, and flows out of its own. It lives without a cause, because it lives for itself. If you seek a 'Why' in your life, you are looking for a reason that is smaller than the life itself.
Alice
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The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things... [Yet] all that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.
Jim
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We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them... This way of looking is first of all attentive. The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive into itself the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Above all, it means not to be in a hurry to conclude.
Anonymous
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