Clare and I both trained at Northern Baptist College. An integral part of the training when we were there was what was known as the Monday Programme - a kind of introduction to what could rather grandly be called Theological Reflection.

The reflecting was done around one of the tutor’s kitchen table - or later in Clare’s front room! But before you can reflect theologically upon the presence of God in the world, you need to learn to see God. So the Monday programme was an attempt to engage students in the world around them, to develop the techniques of understanding the world in which they live and to ask the hard ‘God-questions.’

Almost everything we have ever written could fit into this category, it has become so much a part of who we are. We found ourselves on a long train journey the other day and quickly found that we were looking out of the window at the communities which flashed by and asking ourselves God-questions about them.

Here we have selected just those prayers which are most obviously about seeing God in the world around us.

1.     Awe And wonder Blessing.pdfBlessing
   

2.     Blackpool Blessing.pdf                          Blessing
   

3.     Dancing In The Desert.pdf                    Eucharist
   

4.     Dandelions Break Through Concrete.pdfOpening Prayer
   

5.     Everyday Miracles.pdfOpening Prayer
   

6.     Fifteen Minutes.pdfEucharist
   

7.     Gods Presence.pdfOpening Prayer/ Blessing
   

8.     Living In The moment.pdfBlessing
   

9.     Prayer Walk.pdfPrayer Walk
   

10.     Seaside God.pdfOpening Prayer
    

11.     Sense God's World.pdfOpening Prayer
    

12.     Sun Over The City.pdfOpening Prayer   
    

13.     The Good Samaritan.pdf
    

14.     The Openshaw Jerusalem.pdfSong
    

15.     The Stones Cry Out For Justice.pdfIntercession
    

16.     The Stones Cry Out.pdfEucharist
    

17.     The Wind Whispers Our Name Eucharist.pdfEucharist
    

18.     The Wind Whispers Our Name.pdfOpening Prayer