We’ve got a lot of heads working hard right now, researching, thinking, analysing, planning. Asking questions about big things like economy and death rates and poverty. A lot of heads that are clever and working hard, and some that are less so. Heads belonging to leaders or politicians or scientists and to the rest of…
Category: A Year of Prayers
A Prayer for our Son
March was such a strange month with Lockdown starting that I hardly noticed that April had begun, and missed my opportunity to post a March prayer. March is our son’s birth month, so here is a belated prayer for him. Dear Lord, Thank you for this beautiful, funny, resilient boy who has been through so…
A Prayer for our Daughter
In January I resolved to pray more, out of a desire to draw near to God’s compassionate heart and let that radiate into my life and into the hope-parched, love-starved world around me. As part of my new year’s resolution, I decided to publish a prayer a month on lifelived. So here I am, with…
A Year of Prayers
In the inevitable spurt of January reflections, I have resolved to blog a little more, and to pray a lot more. Praying, for me, is a living and breathing thing, more a day-to-day openness to God’s Presence than a formal or liturgical rite. I believe in the love and encouragement of God, in his goodness,…
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