FEATHER: Creator God, we, the children of your creation, thank you for the new day before us, and we invite you into the circle of our journey of life and faith. Humble our hearts to see your path and direction, especially when pride whispers; calm us when the storm of life around us seems too much, and bless us with your abundant peace that we may witness peace to all on our journey in this life. We the children of creation lift our prayer in the name of the peacemaker, Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
Scripture: Mark 11:24, John 14:13-14, Isaiah 41:10
SAGE: We live in uncertain times, and it is often a struggle to keep abreast of all that is changing in the life and times around us. I’ve been trying to keep up to date on the growing concerns around AI, data centres and the influence of social media on our lives. As a result, I’ve been praying more and focusing on the postures of power and privilege. I’ve been looking into the mirror of my faith and prayer life and have seen reflected the falsehood of thinking that I’m praying enough.
Prayer is the pausing to come into relationship with God our Creator. It is the humbling of self to submit the needs and concerns of our world and relationships to the one who can change all things.
My mother used to tell us of how my great-grandfather would take his drum and the whole house would go quiet as he sang his prayers through his drum song. The posture of prayer shapes our belief and humility before the Almighty. Prayer should open our hearts and souls before the Creator. It should be treated as a significant moment, important in its own right but also powerful enough to change our view of all that is before us in life and faith.
In these ever-changing times, we too often focus only on the seen and scene before us, forgetting that it is the unseen that can shape and change the world and future. Our personal prayers are powerful: what we bring before the Almighty One can be shaped because our Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers, though not always as we demand, not always as we want, but as we need and as is best. It is my prayer today that we together in the great circle join our prayers in the great drumbeat of our hearts, and that we invite the Creator to walk with us that we might express peace, healing and true love.
