What on Earth is a Finger Labyrinth?

Last year for my sixtieth birthday someone gave me a finger labyrinth. I put it in my draw and promptly forgot about it. However, as I started to research various methods of prayer to incorporate in my new book Return to Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray I pulled it out again. To be honest this [...]

Looking for Blessings – How the Body Heals Itself

This morning I am not feeling well. Since my bout with the flue 3 weeks ago I have been spiking the occasional evening temperature, and like most doctors I am reluctant to see a physician for myself. But today I have decided to bite the bullet and go. Well that doesn’t sound like a blessing [...]

St Patrick’s Creeds

Saturday is St Patrick’s Day. As I have posted a responsive prayer and some links to Patrick’s Breastplate and other prayers in the past as well a post with his Prayer for the Faithful I thought that this year I would post his creeds instead. I have found two that are attributed to Patrick – both very compelling [...]

Prayers for the Journey

It is a couple of weeks since I posted a summary of my facebook prayers. Speaking commitments and the travels they entail have kept me busier than usual. As well as that I am working on a new book that has come out of my blog series on Tools for Prayer. I plan to incorporate [...]

Prayers for the Journey

Once again we are at the end of the week and I am bringing together the prayers that I have posted on facebook each day. God you are the everlasting one and I long for you Jesus you are the ever caring one and I reach out for your embrace Spirit you are the ever [...]

Inhabit Conference 2012 is Coming

InHabit Conference 2012, Seattle, Washington – April 20-21:  There are not many conferences that I look forward with great anticipation, but this is one of those rare ones. It will be an opportunity to be stretched, and enriched, a chance to gather with friends and make new ones and above all a chance to see God [...]

Prayers for the Journey

Today’s post is a little late in coming because it is such a beautiful day here in Seattle that I have been out in the garden all morning which inspired the first prayer here. However I have also included the other prayers I have posted on facebook during the week. God may we look and [...]

Columba’s Prayer

Many of you know that Tom and I are very keen on Celtic Christian spirituality. One of the highlights of our life has been the opportunity to spend Holy week on the island of Iona several years ago. During that pilgrimage I was given a copy of what is known as Columba’s prayer. It is [...]

Prayers for the Journey

This is a summary of the prayers that I have posted on facebook and twitter in the last couple of weeks Still my mind O God, calm my spirit, Draw me to a place where my soul finds solitude, May I listen to the sounds of silence, And hear your quiet whispers. _____________________________ God transform us [...]

Prayers for the Journey

I just realized a couple of days ago that I stopped posting my weekly roundup of prayers from Light for the Journey at the beginning of Advent with the intention of restarting this practice whenever Christmas was over. I am a little late, but here are the prayers that I have posted each morning since [...]