Tag Archives: prayer

A Gethsemane prayer

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

For once, just for once you tried to lay your burdens, those acquired from crowds and children, a collection of tax collectors, sinners and scribes along the way – for once, just for once you tried to lay them on … Continue reading →

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Hoping and praying

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Illuminated by hope, prayer chatters across the garden fence between earth and heaven, clouding the air with gossipy details… When hope has set beyond the horizon, prayer retreats into the house, slams the door, draws down the shades,  unwilling to submit to … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 28: Work and do not be weary

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

They are words that strike terror into the hearts of the unemployed, the underemployed, the working poor, the uninsured. They are words that form a hard and heavy stone in the stomachs of too many people, even in these enlightened … Continue reading →

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Praying alone

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The writing was on the wall outside: the service ended hours ago; the people gone to their Sunday dinners, families, fire sides. The church empty, gaping open, sat stone cold and silent as the grave, its pews petrified, unforgiving, its … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 25: Stand closer

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Have you ever read the brilliant dystopian novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley? I won’t give the whole game away, but one of the themes in the book is social engineering, which is achieved by a mixture of genetic … Continue reading →

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Prayers, overheard

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Each stood away from the other, his face turned anyway but there, no meeting of eyes for these two, let alone hearts, minds. One looked up to heaven, his prayer belying his blindness to the other, “Thank God I am … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 24: On the need to pray always and not to lose heart

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The days are coming, says the Lord, says Jeremiah, the days are surely coming when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. I will be their God, and they shall be … Continue reading →

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Your faith has saved you

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

There are those who believe that a world in which miracles happen is one in which we could not live without the unpredictability driving us insane. Others feel that a world without miracles is one in which we would not … Continue reading →

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Brought to you by:

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

I wish I could give you the details. I’m a little hazy on them myself. I can tell you that today was brought on entirely by prayer. It wasn’t the words, God knows, nor the miniscule, mustard-seed faith that wrote … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 12: What is the world coming to?

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

What is the world coming to? How many times have we had to ask ourselves that question over the past few months, the past few years? When I told people abroad on vacation where I came from, they had heard … Continue reading →

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