
Short reflection on prayer.
One of my favourite moments in prayer was time spent with my nephew, we set time aside to pray together. I was introducing this to him when he was about 5 years old, very often I would encourage my nephew to light a candle. We would sit and follow this pattern.
1.We would think and share what we were proud of that day, a moment of encouragement.
2.We then thought and shared a moment that we were not proud of.
3. We then share our resolve of what we would do to make this better the next day.
4. We finished with a prayer.
Very often I would think did this help him at all? When one day I was stunned and humbled when I stood outside his room. And from a distance I saw him light candle and was just talking to Nana in heaven after she had passed away. He was 13 years old at this point and he got a lot of comfort from this. The power of prayer hey.
Here are some sites I have found helpful.
1. Pray as you go - This is a daily pray site takes about 10 mins for daily reflection
https://pray-as-you-go.org/home/
2. Taize – Short Bible quotes you might like to use, if you took one that speaks to you and use to reflect on for as long as you need to.
https://www.taize.fr/en_article1854.html
3. Lourdes live TV – where you can experience the Mass in many different Languages
https://www.lourdes-france.org/en/tv-lourdes/
4. Contemporary worship – these you tube videos are from Matt Redman a worship leader that many of our youth enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtwIT8JjddM&list=PLDSwJEKOvvWMIrTFJd4SLXtgzwx35Tl-B
Keep well and be assured of many prayers for you and all your families here at St Cuthbert's Faith community.