About God and science

I absolutely love science because, to me,
its wonders and glories show forth the handiwork of God
and fill me with awe at the marvel of creation.

About God and Bach's Matthew Passion

How could anyone who watches, as I did last night,
a performance of Bach's Matthew Passion on YouTube*,
not be made utterly aware of the reality and presence of God.  

*Dutch Bach Society, Veldhoven.

A prayer about accepting others

Help us, God, to learn to accept people and things as they are
and not to grieve overmuch
when they are not as we would wish them to be.

About the "sins of our youth" (Take 2)

A prayer for everyone

Forgive us, O Lord, the sins of our youth (Psalm 25:7)

and help us to remember them,
especially when tempted to point the finger at others'.

About Jesus and to Jesus

Jesus, you came among us, as one of us.
You were a baby, a toddler, a young lad, a young adult.
You learned a trade, you cared for your widowed mother. 
You were a man among men.

And then, you heard the word and turned your life around.
You came among us all,
to teach us, to heal us, to set us free,
to show us the way to live, the truth of God and the life of love.

When those who hated your innocence, your authority,
your power, your gentleness, your sheer goodness,
conspired against you, to have you killed,
you suffered the pain, the insult, the inhuman cruelty, 
and walked through it all with unshakeable dignity.

They could not break your spirit, your love, your forgiveness.
You came through darkness and death
to everlasting life and light.

Glory and thanks and praise be to you forever.

A prayer for help from Jesus

Jesus,
I need your wisdom, your courage,
your guidance, your strength,
your humility, your love.
Please help me.
Amen

A prayer about what we do and what we say

Very often in life,
it's not what we do,
it's the way that we do it,
and it's not what we say,
it's the way that we say it,
that really makes a difference to others.

Help us to do and to say what we should
in the right way.