We give you thanks O God, for those who listen: we pray for professional listeners for therapists and counsellors, who hear our stories, and those things we cannot bear to say; we pray for physicians who listen not only to our words but to our bodies to our heartbeat and to our breath, to the… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Encouragement
We thank you, O God, for encouragement: for friends who strengthen our hearts by showing up to cheer us on, for friends who send gifs and thumbs up who wish us well. We thank you that this encouragement builds us up, makes us braver, makes us stronger, draws us on. We thank you and praise… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Steady Ease
Breathing in: steady out of the miry bog, my feet set upon a rock… You are indeed my rock… Breathing out: ease Your yoke is easy, your burden light. (Scripture paraphrased from Psalms 40 and 31, Matthew 11) Jemma Allen is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and… Read More
Thursday Prayer: hear our weeping
What cannot be said will be wept – a quote attributed to Sappho You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record? -Psalm 56: 8 O God, when words fail hear our weeping. Hear our weeping, treasure our tears, answer our cry. Amen. … Read More
Thursday Prayer: A Prayer for World Refugee Day
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 May we who seek to follow in the way of Jesus and to be made more and more in the likeness of Christ live out our calling as refuge and strength to those who leave their home in search of safety, as… Read More
Thursday prayer: focus
May our eyes the eyes of our body the eyes of our mind the eyes of our heart attend this day to truth, goodness and beauty and where we see those things may we know that we are being pointed towards you Amen. Jemma Allen is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New… Read More
Thursday Prayer: anticipating Pentecost
Come Holy Spirit, fire in us the gift of your imagination; breathe in us the gift of your peace; dance in us the gift of your beauty; dream in us the gift of your wisdom; speak in us the gift of your justice; make in us the gift of your strength. Come, Holy Spirit, come!… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Rejoice!
The heavens write large their rejoicing! The clouds are jubilant! The earth sings out gladness and beauty, joy and delight! Alleluia! Christ is risen! Risen indeed! Inspired by Isaiah 49:13 and Taize’s Jubilate Coeli. Jemma Allen is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. She works as a counsellor… Read More
Maundy Thursday Prayer: Remember
“Do this to remember me…” However we do this with a loaf, wafers, cubes of bread… However we do the doing in vestments our Sunday best barefoot or high-heeled Dear God, help us to remember not the to-do list or the thing we forgot to write on the to-do list or who is doing what… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Festival of Lists
A friend calls this liturgical season the Festival of Lists. In this season of all the lists all the liturgies all the last-minute glitches we ask, O God, for your blessing: A blessing of a photocopier that keeps copying. A blessing of volunteers who bear with one another and with their pastors with generosity and… Read More
