Tag: Voice

Voice training


 

Jan Richardson writes,

“There is ground that becomes holy only when we remain long enough to see the blessing that can emerge from struggle, that shimmers through only after the dust the struggle kicks up finally begins to settle.”

 

A prayer

Lord, train us to hear your voice. When it is time to grieve, help us to grieve. When it is time to rejoice, help us to rejoice. When we grow weary, be the strength in our weakness. May your most beautiful and perfect will, not ours, be done. Amen.

from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okoro, p. 393

From the blog
Precious dust
Singing creation’s song
Quiet my heart
 

Sweet voice

 

“ … the best in us lies deeper than our words.”

(Pico Iyer)

 
from Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender: Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine Monastery  (www.themarginalian.org)

A prayer

after hearing or reading Scripture

Good Jesus, as you have graciously allowed me here to drink in the sweetness of your Word, so at the last, I pray, You will bring me into your presence, that I may listen to your voice which is the source of all wisdom, and watch your face forever.

 
~ written by The Venerable Bede (673/3 – 735),
from 2000 Years of Prayer compiled by Michael Counsell, p. 87
 

From the blog
Ever blooming
Open time for pause and restoration
Theme: Still small voice  [prayer sheet]