- Prayers for the Ups and Downs of Life
- I don't know the words to use
- Prayers for honesty in yourself
- A prayer of anger
- When you're feeling flat and dull
- When God seems far away
- The power of prayer
- Feeling lonely
- Guilt and confession
- A prayer for friends
- When I'm feeling anxious
- Prayers for the busy
- Illness
- I don't think there is a God - how can I pray?
- When a loved one has died
- No one understands
- When you feel full of joy
- Before a job interview
- When you try hard but get nowhere
- The journey of life
- Care for others
- Home and family
- The life of faith
- The present moment
- Creative Prayers
- Forgiveness
- Being made whole
- Food in the wilderness
Care for others
O Lord, open my eyes
that I may see the need of others,
open my ears that I may hear their cries,
open my heart so that they need not be without succour.
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak
because of the anger of the strong,
nor afraid to defend the poor
because of the anger of the rich.
Show me where love and hope and faith are needed,
and use me to bring them to these places.
Open my eyes and ears that I may, this coming day,
be able to do some of the work of peace for you.
Alan Paton, South Africa. Prayers Encircling the World
O God enlarge my heart...
O God,
enlarge my heart
that it may be big enough to receive the greatness of your love.
Stretch my heart
that it may take into it all those who with me around the world
believe in Jesus Christ.
Stretch it
that it may take into it all those who do not know him,
but who are my responsibility because I know him.
And stretch it
that it may take in all those who are not lovely in my eyes,
and whose hands I do not want to touch;
through Jesus Christ, my saviour.
Prayer of an African Christian, Prayers encircling the World
God our Mother and Father...
God our Mother and Father, be with us as we learn to see one another with new eyes, hear one another with new hearts, and treat one another in a new way.
Corrymeela Community, Ireland. Prayers Encircling the World
