A MID-WINTER PRAYER

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A Mid-Winter Prayer

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From the rising of the midwinter sun to its setting
Scatter the darkness with the light of your love, O Shining One.
Make me short on mean thoughts, long on offering words of comfort
Make me short on being driven, long on paying attention
Make me short on focusing only on my own, long on looking beyond

Make me short on obsessive lists, long on spontaneous acts of kindness

Make me short on mindless activity, long on time to reflect

Make me short on tradition as a habit, long on re-discovery and re-owning

Make me short on rushing and tiring, long on walking and wondering

Make me short on false festive jollity, long on stilling and rooted joy

Make me short on guilt, long on being merciful to myself

Make me short on being overwhelmed, long on peaceableness as I set forth this day

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From The Celtic Wheel of the Year:

Celtic and Christian Seasonal Prayers

by Tess Ward

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CERTAIN THOUGHTS ARE PRAYERS

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Certain thoughts are prayers.

There are moments when,

whatever be the attitude of the body,

the soul is on its knees.

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Victor Hugo

THOUGHTS ON PRAYER - 2

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Prayer is when you talk to God;

meditation is when you listen to God.

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Diana Robinson

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words

than words without a heart.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Pray as though everything depended on God.

Work as though everything depended on you.

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Saint Augustine

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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George Bernard Shaw

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Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill;

they come only when they hurt.

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B. Graham Dienert

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I have had prayers answered -

most strangely so sometimes -

but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness

has been even more evident in what he has refused me.

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Lewis Carroll

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Do not pray for easy lives.

Pray to be stronger men!

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.

Pray for power equal to your tasks.

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Phillip Brooks

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