At the end of the day, take a glass bowl and fill with water; get yourself into a calm frame of mind, perhaps with music.
We all work in different ways and engage with different mediums: if writing isn’t your thing, why not collect photos and imagery that is powerful to you? Photos of loved ones, places you’ve visited, special memories – and collect in a scrap book? You can then flick through and use these as an aide for prayer!
Can you find God more easily, when the calm of being in nature can slow down our hectic lives?
Prayers given on our Morning Praise service on the Second Sunday after Trinity, with a focus on the work undertaken by the Childrens Society.
How did you revise for your exams at school, college or university? Some find making notes on catalogue cards an aide, noting down key points of revision onto these cards as a cue.
Prayers given on our Family Communion service on Trinity Sunday.
To the tune of ‘Frere Jaques’, sing with children the following – why not try as a round, splitting into two or more parts?
Take a circle of paper and cut it into a spiral and in it write names of people you want to come to know God along the spiral.
Use your five senses as you pray; sound, sense, scent, sight and taste.
If you struggle to focus during times of prayer, try something more interactive: use dice and assign someone you want to pray for, or a way to interact with God (e.g. silence, thanking, singing, etc.) to each number. Roll the dice and spend a few minutes on the prayer assignment it gives you. Alternatively take your prayers to the streets – go to a specific place in your area and pray over it. Or go on a prayer walk in your community with others.