Two prayers

Lest you think it's all smiles and giggles here, I wanted to include two prayers from an Iona prayer book a dear friend in N. Ireland sent me that really encouraged me through the difficult times of low energy and no Aaron these last few months.

Lord Christ,
enable me to place my trust in you,
and so to live each day in the present moment.
So often I forget
that you long for peace
and healing in my mind,(body)
and heart.
Your song pierces
even my darkest days,
and your hands
are always
and everywhere,
the source of
my journey
into wholeness
and that inner springtime
which is your gift alone,
Jesus the Risen One.

Evening Prayer (based on a traditional celtic prayer)
Thanks be to you O Christ our lord,
for the many gifts you have given us:
each day and night, each sea and land
each weather fair, each calm ,each wild.

Tonight may we remember your mercy
given so gently and generously:
each thing we have received, from you it came;
each thing for which we hope, from your love it will come;
each thing we enjoy , it is of your bounty,
each thing we ask, comes of your disposing.

O Lord, from whom each thing that is freely flows,
grant that no tie over-strict, no tie over-dear,
may separate us from your constant love,
or from the needs of our neighbours
in whom your face shines
each day and night.