Prayer: toolbox talks 

In Lent 2020 we launched the Prayer Toolbox Talks. This series of short talks is aimed at giving you lots of different practical prayer tools to try out and use in our own prayer time each week. Below are some of the talks we recorded to continue to inspire your prayer life. 

Silent Prayer: Charlie Wheeler

Method of Centering Prayer:

1. Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your intention to consent to God's presence and action within.
2. Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed, settle briefly and silently introduce the sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God's presence and action within.
3. When engaged with your thoughts*, return ever-so-gently to the sacred word.
4. At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence with eyes closed for a couple of minutes.
*thoughts include body sensations, feelings, images and reflections.

1. Pick a passage of scripture - psalms are a good place to start e.g. 23 or 139
2. Read  s  l  o  w  l  y  !
3. Pause
4. Read again  s  l  o  w  l  y  !  And allow a word or phrase to jump our at you
5. Allow God to speak through the words
6. Rest and take in what God is saying