Praying with stones and sticky hearts
With some trepidation we volunteered as a church to be part of the 2009 Year of Continuous Prayer across Merseyside. The idea being that each week a different church in Merseyside would take on the baton (a diary) and pray for the community. This week it was our turn…
We decided to use, with some minor tweaks the fantastic series of prayer stations suggested by Erica Schemper, which are based on the words of the Lord’s Prayer.
I guess some people hoped the whole world would turn up to pray, but prayer tends not to be such a crowd puller. Each day people have come and spent time quietly praying, guided by the stations. Some of us have stood at the door of our church and asked passers-by what we should pray for. And so this week our church has been a place of prayer. Interesting how they are often anything but.
There are also lots of other great ideas for imaginative praying on the Creative Prayer web site. Many people find it hard to know where to begin with prayer and are often helped to know that all the senses can be used when drawing close to God.
2 more days to go. It has been a good week.
