We believe in an Ultimate Reality,
a reality beyond our words
and beyond our images,
a reality that grounds and sustains everything that exists.

I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.

Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming.

Great divine spirit of love that is at the core of everything and from which all life flows,
We acknowledge your healing and transforming power.

Breath, love, hope, inspiration
– truth that sings forth from within
even as I am enveloped with its challenge,

O Divine Power of Creation
Hallowed be thy name
The mystery of thy grace be with us

Good caring presence within us, around us, and above us;
Hold us in a sense of mystery and wonder.

As an Episcopalian I regularly recite the Apostles’ Creed and pray the Lord’s Prayer. In doing so, I stand with Jesus’ early followers as they struggled to find words that could frame how their lives were being renewed beyond comprehension. My life also is being renewed beyond comprehension, or so I’m convinced, as I try to live out the self-giving embodied in the common life Jesus began. But I live in a vastly different time and place from those of Jesus’ early followers. My everyday assumptions about the world and how it works are vastly different, not final truths, mind you, but still different, and just as inescapable as people’s everyday assumptions back then.

We recognise that life is a gift and a joy to be lived in all its richness

All: We give thanks with all our hearts

I am really struggling with my faith today, A boy near us has killed himself.

Gretta Vosper offers this lovely prayer to use in community which focuses on the unity of all.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers this simple prayer for others

The time for healing is now…

I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.   Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

God bless this food we are about to receive. Give bread to those who hunger; and hunger for justice to us who have bread.  Amen

For each new morning with its light…

May the Love of those with dear ones lost
Be strong.

We pray for those who are struggling with addiction,
Filling their void with more emptiness.
May they find the pure Fullness that is God.