At the moment many of us feel like we are travelling an unfamiliar path.  We are not sure where we are going or how long the journey will last.  Yet, in all this God offers us his hand to guide us through the unknown, whatever happens.  Here is a prayer I find helpful from the book 'Rooted in God's Love'

I can't see very well, Lord.

I certainly am not familiar with this path

Are you sure you know where this leads?

This feels like a pretty rough trail to me, Lord.

Are you sure I can make it?

Be my guide, Lord.

I am afraid.  I would be lost without you.

Guide me, Lord.

Turn darkness into light.

Make the rough places smooth.

Do not forsake me.

Amen

Take a look at the link to the Church of England's website looking at Mental Health Reflections:

https://www.churchofengland.org/search-results?keys=mental+health+reflections 

Will you join Christians across the world tomorrow to say the Lord's Prayer at 11am (Wednesday 25 March)?

The Archbishop of Canterbury is backing a call from the Pope for CHristians to say the Lord's Prayer as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Find out more at: www.cofe.io/GlobalLordsPrayer  

A prayer in lockdown....from Ely Cathedral

The doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked (John 20.19)

Ever Present God,

be with us in our isolation,

be close to us in our distancing,

be healing in our sickness,

be joy in our sadness,

be light in our darkness,

be wisdom in our confusion,

be all that is familiar when all is unfamiliar,

that when the doors reopen

we may with the zeal of Pentecost

inhabit our communities

and speak of your goodness

to an emerging world.

For jesus' sake

Amen.

(Photo: Andrew Sharpe)