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Christian Prayer thread

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Dutchoma · 25/10/2018 13:32

NIGHT PRAYER

Comfort me with Your love O God
Wrap me up in Your strong embrace
Shelter me from the storm O Lord
Envelop me in Your tender care
By day I pour out my heartbreak to You
By night I give you my racing thoughts
In You I take refuge
In You I will not be afraid
For you hold me strong, You hold me safe
Calm my fearful heart O God
Still my anxious mind O Lord
For all my life is found in You
All my being is given to You
All my hope begins in You

Prayer found on web.dawesvillecps.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/17th-September.pdf

I found this prayer on Facebook and tought it was a beautiful way to start the new prayer thread.

There was a beautiful picture with it too, but I don’t know how to transfer that.

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Becca19962014 · 05/12/2018 19:24

bes I pray it wasn't too hard for you today.

Becca19962014 · 05/12/2018 19:25

I got out today but I over did. Supposed to be out again now, might go for a short walk maybe.

Anyway difficult appointment tomorrow so I'd appreciate prayers for that. I've another on Monday as well. I may or may not be posting a lot so please bear with me.

Grace212 · 05/12/2018 19:53

Becca, I know it's so easy to overdo things when not well isn't it Flowers

hope the appointment goes well, post away and let us know.

thanks to all for the prayers. I am starting to feel a bit less floored with grief today. I know it's going to take time...feel like today I've seen a bit of recovery.

Dutchoma · 05/12/2018 20:47

That’s lovely Grace. A month is such a short time. Have you had any more attempts of linking in with a church? I know you said you visited a church near the hospital, but since you won’t be going there any more you may have lost touch with what little support you had.

Becca I hope all your appointments work out for you.

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Tuo · 05/12/2018 21:23

Hmm... so much for posting every day. I fell asleep at my computer last night, so gave up and went to bed. Sorry...

Praying today for:
BES - that the funeral went as well as these things can, and that the drive went smoothly;
Becca - for tomorrow's appointment;
Grace - for you to find love and support in your grief... it'll come and go, but that's OK - and people will always be here for you on this thread.

As old-timers know, I am a fan of the Northumbria Community's Complines. This is from today's and I am praying it today for all of us on this thread, and for those we know who are finding life tough at this time and particularly those missing a loved-one this Christmas.

Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm.
Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm.
Let all the tumult within me cease.
Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace.
Amen

Becca19962014 · 05/12/2018 22:12

Thankyou all.

I find it hard not to overdo it, I went out this evening as well and felt OK but got back and didn't feel well. My mind and body are in complete conflict!

Dutchoma · 05/12/2018 22:16

Thanks TUO

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Grace212 · 06/12/2018 09:59

Dutchoma, no, I haven't been to any churches

This again makes me wonder if I ought to be on the thread...it was an exceptional situation really. I'm still trying to connect with something...but with all the to-ing and fro-ing between here and mum's - which can be a 4 hour round trip if unlucky with train times etc, I'm not great for time at the mo.

Becca19962014 · 06/12/2018 10:02

grace if you mean this thread then please don't go, I think oma was just suggesting it as a possible way of you getting some support. I don't go to church anymore (long story) but I still post.

Appointment soon..

Dutchoma · 06/12/2018 10:08

Oh Grace, no I certainly did not mean you should not be on this thread, you absolutely should get all the support our prayers can give you. I just hoped that there would be some additional real life support for you and whether you could reach out like you did on that remarkeable occasion.

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Grace212 · 06/12/2018 10:11

sorry OP...perhaps misunderstood as it has all been a new experience for me, even just clicking on the thread with the title was odd for someone who doesn't know what they think.

Becca19962014 · 06/12/2018 10:20

Don't worry grace it's fine. I read for ages before I ever posted. It's a friendly thread for everyone to post on if they want to.

Dutchoma · 06/12/2018 10:22

No need for apologies. You reached out twice, I hope that this thread can provide at least some comfort in the very hard situation you find yourself in. Can you share any of this with your mum?

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Tuo · 06/12/2018 12:19

Grace, please don't feel you don't 'belong' here. You don't have to know what you think in order to be here. You just need to know that this is a place where you can find support and love, and to be OK with the fact that the way that we express that is through the language of prayer.

Like Becca, I lurked for ages before posting, and like you, I started posting before I was at all certain what I believed in. That was over 8 years ago, but it took a good while before I felt confident to do much more than just sort of stick my head above the parapet, say hello, and duck back down again. I stuck around. Other people have posted for a time and then disappeared - it's fine, there is no prerequisite for being here.

There is a prayer used sometimes after communion which always makes me go [gulp]... It starts: 'Father of all, we give you thanks and praise that when we were still far off you met us in your Son and brought us home.' That was absolutely my experience. I had thought that if I was going to reconnect with faith (I went to church as a child, but hadn't been for 25 years or so) I would have to make the first move, as it were, do something, change my life. Instead, I realised that God had come to me without me doing anything at all except to become aware of God's presence there. I did start going to church, but I started going because God had come to me, not in order to look for God... if that makes sense. And that is, I think, what God always does if we are able to see it: it's what it means for God to have become a human being and dwelt among us. God comes to us, whoever we are, and however far away we think we are.

I hope and pray that this will be your experience too, not because where you are now is in any way 'wrong', but because realising that God had come to meet me has transformed my life in the most amazing ways. But take your time, there's no pressure, and in the meantime, stick around. You don't have to pray - we've got that covered for you! - you just need to want to be here.

BlackeyedGruesome · 06/12/2018 14:56

Just popping in on the ridiculously small amount of charge on the phone, have a new phone but it is not set up yet. So near but so far. Run out of the ability to walk in a straight line as walked in his morning and my legs are no longer cooperating. Nor coordinating. Definite list to port.

Becca19962014 · 06/12/2018 14:59

I had my appointment, I've a small tumour (nothing too bad apparently) but they're 99% it's my EDS effecting my neck muscles and breathing.

Masie24 · 06/12/2018 17:08

Becca - from what I know of EDS, it probably is. I hope that you're feeling even a bit better for some information at least and that things look up markedly for you over the next days and weeks.

Tuo I love that prayer a few posts ago. It brought a lot of hope.

Grace I can't get myself to church all that often these days (though I slip out quietly from the office sometimes to a lunchtime service/to light candles in a church near by workplace) and find prayer not very easy at all but I'm going to stay put here. Already, I sense that it's a special place. I hope you do, too.

I have good news. DS1 has just been found. The police (they took some persuading) tracked him through his use of his band card & found him a long way from where he last was - and still far from here. Safe, not very well at all, weak and tried but alive. I had at times, as I think I mentioned, feared the worse. He's back in hospital (quick transfer to one nearer to us). Meeting next week with all concerned, including us, to discuss a way forward as going off (in the past, for years at a time) with no aim and very few resources seems now to be very much part of his condition. I'll see him this evening - will hug and hug.

I want to think you for your support and your prayers. When I was hardly telling anyone at all in RL, the friendship from people I'd only just 'met' was truly appreciated, especially in the small hours.

I'm now going to properly catch up with this lovely thread.

Grace212 · 06/12/2018 17:51

Masie - that is good news, hope things are on the up now.

Becca - did they give any useful advice?

thanks for all the replies. Mum is feeling terrible still - I know that's natural but I am going to be selfish and ask for you to pray for her because she really needs some help. thank you.

Becca19962014 · 06/12/2018 17:53

masie No useful advice, it'll get worse, it can't get better because that's the nature of EDS.

Im pleased to hear your DS has been found. That's great news!

FestiveForestieraNoel · 06/12/2018 17:57

Becca Flowers

Maisie Flowers so glad he's been found

Please pray that Liam, a 16 yr old boy, will be found. He's been missing in Aberdeenshire for 3 weeks now.

Dutchoma · 06/12/2018 19:09

Very grateful that your son has been found Masie. I hope and pray that he will get the help he needs.
Grace why on earth is it selfish to ask for prayers for your mother? She has been in my prayers anyway, because yes, she will feel completely adrift and lost.
Prayers for the 16 yearold missing inAberdeenshire as well MsForestier.

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Masie24 · 06/12/2018 19:30

Thank you, all.

The missing boy, Liam - as well as the Police, I guess the Missing People's Charity know and are sending out alerts and sending images to their poster partners? They were very efficient when DS was missing and are also there to support families 24/7 on a free helpline. I pray he's found safe, well and soon.

FestiveForestieraNoel · 06/12/2018 19:41

I think so Masie. It's been so long now - he hasn't got his phone, his bank account is untouched and I don't think he's got warm clothes. He took a bus to a ruralish area but the CCTV wasn't working so they don't know where he got out. Dive teams are searching the river, boots on ground searches, posters everywhere...

BlackeyedGruesome · 06/12/2018 20:57

No not listening Becca.

EDS can fuck right off

Posting from my new phone. Tis annoying that no tabs are open and photos are still stuck on my own phone.

Tuo · 06/12/2018 23:39

Praying tonight for Grace and her mum in their shared grief, for Becca with her new diagnosis and the anxiety that must come with it, and for Liam and all who love him. And giving thanks for the face that Masie's DS has been found, and holding the whole family in prayer at this stressful time.

Here is another prayer from the Northumbria community.

May God be in our sleep;
may Christ be in our dreams.
May the Spirit be in our repose,
in our thoughts, in our hearts.
In our soul always
may the Sacred Three dwell.
Amen

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