Daily prayer readings for: Monday 29 April 2024

Today’s Scripture Reading

The Lord judges the nations. Declare me righteous, O Lord, for I am innocent, O Most High! End the evil of those who are wicked, and defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind and heart, O righteous God.

God is my shield, saving those whose hearts are true and right.

Psalm 7:8-10


“I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you.

I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

Job 42:2, 5


but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:21


Today’s Meditation

As the tamed horse
still hears the call of her wild brothers
and as the farmed goose flaps hopeful wings
as his sisters fly overhead,
so too, perhaps,
the wild ones amongst us
are our only hope in calling us back
to our true nature.
Wild ones
who have not been turned to stone
by the far-reaching grasp of the empire
and its programme of consumer sedation,
the killing of imagination.
Where, my friends,
have the wild ones gone?

Joel McKerrow

‘Come to the edge’,
He said. They said,
‘we are afraid’.
‘Come to the edge’,
He said. They came.
He pushed them, and
they flew.

Guillame Apollinaire