Group Reflections 2026

Welcome Opening Prayer Creator God, we thank you for your presence with us as we gather here today. We thank you for all the gifts of creation so many of them necessary to our daily lives, and bringing us so many joys especially at a time when our world is suffering and in pain. Guide us as we ponder the gifts we have, and perhaps those we feel we need, to help us stay with. As we reflect, help us to discover things in our lives which perhaps, until now, we have not seen. W

Welcome Opening Prayer Thank you Lord that you have brought us together again to be still, to listen for your word, to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and to lift each other up as we share our thoughts and our hopes. Thank you Lord for the gift of Hope, that enables us to keep going, to keep believing and keep trusting. Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,Whose trust, ever child-like, no cares can destroy,Be here now among us, and give us, we pray,Your hope in our h

Welcome Opening Prayer Thank you for the ordinary. Let us know in our hearts the value of ordinariness – of being a ‘little flower’ and the love you have for all. We give thanks for the example of St Therese and the ‘little way’ she followed. We cannot pray without praying for peace. Using Isaiah’s words let us beat swords into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks and let no nation take up the sword against any other nation. We need peace so very much. Thank you dear Lor

Opening prayer Loving God, we thank you for our time together this morning – we pray for all whose lives are affected, in any way, by war and conflict throughout the world. We often struggle to make sense of these conflicts, and thank you for the grace to help create peaceful, quiet, times in our own lives and as part of this community. We pray that your Holy Spirit will guide us each day in your way of peace, as we continue to pray for those whose lives are shattered by cu

Welcome Opening Prayer Thank you dear Lord for this season of Spring. A season of renewal of life within all your creation. Longer, warmer and brighter days, growth and life. Let us wonder at this miracle you have given us and renew our world; let us use this time for good, for peace, for compassion and to love of one another. We pray dear Lord for peace. Amen Reflection Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 states: ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heav

Welcome Opening Prayer We come to you this morning, Lord, in thankfulness for this opportunity of putting time aside with each other and with you. Open our hearts and minds to feel the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit in our reading, our quietness and in our sharing. We are aware of the ways we try to contain you, God, in rules, in routines, in what feels safe. But your Spirit moves where it will. Unseen. Unexpected. Free. Amen Reflections If the Son sets you free,

Brokenness and Hope in God’s World Loving God, As we pause in this moment, quieten our hearts and still our minds. Help us to listen — to you, to one another, and to the world you love. In the midst of brokenness, open our eyes to signs of hope, and guide our thoughts as we reflect together. Amen. Brokenness and Hope in God’s World Rev Judy Although I had a theme hovering in my heart and mind for today well before Christmas, much of what I have chosen to share in Thoughts to

Welcome Opening Prayer Dear God, thank you for Jesus’s actions in the world, for His peace, compassion and kindness. Please help us to be close to you in prayer and contemplation. Please show us how to hold you in our hearts throughout the day in every moment. Dear Lord let this new year be a year where peace grasps the world. ‘And they will beat their swords into plows, and their spears into knives for cutting vines. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and they wil