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Short prayers about friends, enemies, relationships and the particular moments and places of our daily lives. Includes instructions for three prayer-writing workshops.

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Publié par	Wild Goose Publications
Date de parution	15 février 2004
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781905010974
Langue	English

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Friends and Enemies
Friends and Enemies
A book of short prayers & some ways to write your own
Ruth Burgess
Prayers © the individual contributors Compilation and workshops © 2003 Ruth Burgess First published 2004, reprinted 2008
Wild Goose Publications, 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH, UK, the publishing division of the Iona Community. Scottish Charity No. SC003794. Limited Company Reg.No. SC096243. www.ionabooks.com
ePub: ISBN 978-1-905010-97-4 Mobipocket: ISBN 978-1-905010-98-1 PDF: ISBN 978-1-905010-99-8
Cover illustration from the painting ‘Urban Spirit’ ©Jocelyn Prosser www.artnaive.co.uk
The publishers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Drummond Trust, 3 Pitt Terrace, Stirling FK8 2EY in producing this book.
All rights reserved. Apart from reasonable personal use on the purchaser’s own system and related devices, no part of this document or file(s) may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Non-commercial use: The material in this document may be used non-commercially for worship and group work without written permission from the publisher. Please make full acknowledgement of the source e.g.© [author’s name], from Friends and Enemies, published by Wild Goose Publications.
Where a large number of copies are made, a donation may be made to the Iona Community via Wild Goose Publications, but this is not obligatory.
Commercial use: For any commercial use of this material, application in writing must be made to Wild Goose Publications at the above address.
Ruth Burgess has asserted her rights in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
For Eve, Mona, Ruth, Vera, Isobel, Mabel and Enid storytellers, nurturers, adventurers, wise women on my track
and for Ian and Ian wise men of integrity, laughter and hope
with thanks for your courage and love
Contents
Index of titles
Introduction
FRIENDS
ENEMIES
THE DAILY SILENCING – prayers of (those labelled) enemies
NEIGHBOURS AND COMMUNITIES
FAMILY
OURSELVES
JUSTICE AND PEACE
REGRETS, HOPES AND GRACES
HURT AND HEALING
CREDO
DAILY LIVING
MOMENTS OF OUR DAYS
MORNING AND EVENING
THE SEASONS TURNING
ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS
LENT, EASTER AND PENTECOST
PRAYERS FOR THE JOURNEY
Notes on prayers
A haiku prayer workshop
Appendix  1:  A short history of haiku
A personal prayers workshop
A workshop on writing intercessory/bidding prayers
Appendix  2:  The pattern of intercessory/bidding prayers and some examples
Appendix  3:  Some observations and the Do’s and Don’ts of writing intercessory prayers
Contributors
Index of authors
Index of titles
Friends
Today and tomorrow
Companions on the road
Friendship
Friends underestimated
Friends
The bestest friend
Thank you for old friends #1
Thank you for old friends #2
Clinging on
Thanksgiving for friends
Blessing for friends
Prayers for old friends who are left behind
Encouragement
Christ our companion
Old friends who understand
Enemies
Two prayers for God’s help
Coals of fire
The man who …
Loving enemies
God, I wish
Prayer for my enemy
Acknowledging my enemy
Sifting the evidence
God can you help me?
Enemies within
Prayer for friends turned enemies
Haiku prayer of hurt
Enemies, friends
The daily silencing – prayers of (those labelled) enemies
The Rejected One?
Prayer of a gay man
Prayer of a lesbian who wishes to become a priest
Remind me
What have we done?
Forgive the sin
Hungry God
Neighbours and communities
Good neighbours
Bread and peace
May we recognise you
Intercession for neighbours
No one is expendable
One body
Disability
The long loneliness
The consolations of scripture
Carers
Persevere
Family
A blessing on Henry, my first grandchild
She who shares life with me
I love them
Prayer at my son’s 21 st
Blessing for child and carer
My family
A blessing for Shiisa
The presence of your saints and angels
Ourselves
Our loveliness
Thank you
In good days and bad days
Grow up
We have love
You take me seriously
Justice and peace
Why God?
Believe in one another
Outrageous for the Kingdom’s sake
Love of difference
Peace without justice
The greatest gift
Peace be with you and also with your spirit
Hearts may begin to change
With those who …
Peace
God’s dream of shalom
Jesus, stiller of storms
Regrets, hopes and graces
Denying the Spirit
Prayer of approach
Getting help
Grace and generosity
A regrettable prayer
Grace is never wasted
To live hopefully
Open hands
You seek us out
Like trees beside a river
Hurt and healing
Why?
The camp site
Christ, my cornerstone
Hold me there
Handle me gently
I found a lump
Help me to let go
Prayer for a service of healing
Until the light comes again
Greet the dawn
A reminder
The Spirit of new life
Credo
The ache in my side
As I breathe
My centre
Statement of faith
I stand
Mysterious but true
I have come thus far
Desert believing
Daily living
God of ordinary life
A blessing for daily work
Mothers’ prayer/check list
Suppose
Life is a gift
Prayer at the start of a difficult meeting
Sunshine
Prayer for teachers
Prayer for guidance
Living with cancer
A prayer of reflection after the departure of visitors
A thank you prayer
The last enslaving power
God of all calm
Prayer for Peggy
In your work
Prayer for inspiration and creativity
Into your love
Prayer of praise
Grace after attending the Edinburgh festival
Our world
I am grateful for my day
Moments of our days
Birth
Deep as the earth, free as the wind
Growing
A sequence of Marker Stone blessings:
Birth
Menarche
Leaving home
They’ve gone
Menopause
Anniversary
Meeting mystery
Divorce
50
Ageing
Remember me in my dying
Dancing in the streets
Morning and evening
As the sun rises
Grace for a new day
God of the morning
The adventure of this new day
A prayer and blessing to counter the Monday morning feeling
Gentle God of evening time
Turn us with the earth
The day is ending
The seasons turning
Awakening
Warm God of summer
Rich for me
Mid-November afternoon
A communion prayer
All the presents
A new year’s beginning
The renewing of the earth
Advent and Christmas
An Advent prayer
Another Advent prayer
What can I give you?
The story of love and life
Help us to light a candle
Christmas Eve
Three prayers for a Christmas Eucharist:
Gathering
Post-communion prayer
Blessing
Saviour of all pilgrim people
Lent, Easter and Pentecost
Barefooted
Collects for Lent:
Ash Wednesday
1 st Sunday in Lent
2 nd Sunday in Lent
3 rd Sunday in Lent
4 th Sunday in Lent
5 th Sunday in Lent
Holy Week
Easter
Easter Monday
A prayer for Pentecost
Goodness, joy and loving kindness
Prayers for the journey
God of our journeying
Surprise
Such a God
Pull me towards heaven
Immersion
I say a prayer
A blessing based on Psalm
A solemn peace and justice blessing
All your being
A haiku journey blessing
Peace wherever you go

Introduction
This book brings together prayers about friends, enemies and relationships. There are also prayers pertaining to daily life and to particular moments and places.
Most of the prayers are written in inclusive language, although for some writers exclusive words still have a positive and significant meaning in their relationship with God. Neither our use of language nor our relationship with God is static; God-words and the words of our prayers will always be fluid.
There are strong thoughts and words in some of these prayers. Saying what we mean to God is more honest than tiptoeing around the issues and concerns we find disturbing or difficult. To write with integrity is to write within the traditions of the writers of the psalms. There is also much wisdom and humour in these prayers, and the challenging clarity of children’s conversations with God.
There are three prayer-writing workshops included in this book. These are based on experience of working with groups to write poems and prayers for private and public use:
•    A Haiku Prayer Workshop is an introduction to short prayer writing, which can be enjoyed by participants of all ages.
•    Writing Personal Prayers is an experimental workshop encouraging creativity and reflection.
•    A Workshop on Writing Intercessory/Bidding Prayers is included, as these are the prayers that lay people are most often asked to contribute to public worship.
My thanks are due to all the contributors who wrote prayers for this book. I also want to thank Lindsay Gray, Jan Sutch Pickard and class teachers who encouraged children to write; Bernadette and Peter Askins and Linda and David Bosworth for proof reading; and Yvonne Morland for sharing with me her experience of running creative writing workshops. I am grateful to the Wild Goose Publications team: Sandra, Jane, Neil, Alex and Tri, for all their encouragement, professionalism and support.
I have greatly enjoyed compiling and editing this book. I hope it will be a useful prayer and worship resource, and an encouragement to both individuals and congregations to be creative and courageous in their prayers.
Friends

Today and tomorrow
Give us bread and friends today,
seeds and stories tomorrow,
love and laughter
for ever and ever.
Joy Mead
Companions on the road
God, we thank you
for the companionship of friends,
and for encounters with strangers;
and the discovery that there are other folk –
saints and sinners like ourselves –
willing to follow you. Amen
Jan Sutch Pickard
Friendship
God, friend and lover of all,
thank you for the wonders of friendship.
For exasperation and encouragement,
irritation and delight,
ear