Other choices:-
- 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
The power of prayer
The prayer has great power
Which we pray with all our strength.
It makes an embittered heart mellow,
A sad heart joyful,
A foolish heart wise,
A timid heart bold,
A weak heart strong,
A blind heart clear-seeing,
A cold heart ardent.
It draws God who is great into a heart which is small.
It drives the hungry soul up to the fullness of God.
It unites the two lovers, God and soul, in a place of bliss,
Where they converse long of love.
Mecthild of Magdeburg, Beguine Spirituality, ed. Bowie
And God said...
And God said to the soul:
I desired you before the world began,
I desire you now
As you desire me.
And where the desires of two come together
There love is perfected.
Mecthild of Magdeburg, Beguine Spirituality, ed. Bowie
