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.