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My Pause for Thought today 5.45am BBC Radio 2 on Vanessa’s early breakfast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019g7n4/Vanessa_Feltz_23_01_2012/

Scroll through to 43:00

Almighty Creator,
You alone are our God
- worthy of all our praise and worship.
You gave us the gift of life
and made us to live in community.
You want us to celebrate our diversity,
but to discover that You are a God of unity
who longs for us to be one just as You are one,
so that the world may believe.
With many tongues and yet with one voice,
we worship You together.
We adore You for all that you are
and for the hope that You give
to our broken and fragile world.
We praise you that You have not abandoned us,
but desire us to turn towards Your love,
and seek Your healing and reconciliation in all our relationships.
You have sent Your Holy Spirit to work in our hearts,
to draw us closer to You and to one another.
We confess with shame, our stubbornness,
independence and selfishness;
our intolerance, our pride, and our insensitivity towards others.
We freely admit our lack of desire to live in harmony with You
and with one another.
Forgive us we pray,
and may we be assured of Your pardon,
through our saviour, Jesus.
May Your grace and mercy permeate our very being;
may we be truly cleansed, renewed,
and remade into our Lord’s likeness.
for we ask this prayer in His name,
that we may be living stones,
building upon the Rock for the sake of Your kingdom.  Amen.

Copyright  Anthony D Miles  2007

Use the link below to hear my 5.45am Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2 this morning with Vanessa Feltz:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019c9mj/Vanessa_Feltz_16_01_2012/

You’ll need to scroll through to 43.45

I knelt to pray but not for long, I had too much to do,
Must hurry up and get to work, for bills would soon be due.

And so I said a hurried prayer, jumped up from off my knees,
My Christian duty now was done my soul could be at ease.

All through the day I had no time to speak a word of cheer,
No time to speak to those in need; they’d laugh at me, I feared.

No time, no time, too much to do, that was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need. But at last the time, the time to die.

And when before the Lord I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
Within his hands God held a book. It was the book of life.

God looked into his book and said, ‘Your name I cannot find,
I once was going to write it down, but never found the time.’

Anon.

Use the link below to hear my Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2 this morning with Vanessa Feltz:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0193ykx/Vanessa_Feltz_09_01_2012/

Scroll through to 44:26

‘God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts!’ (An old bumper sticker quote … bit it still makes me smile … so true.)

@revjoannecox And also with you, Jo. Happy New Year to everyone!

@daily_encourage Happy Christmas! Missing you loads. Enjoy the weather in LA. No snow here! God bless you mightily. Dad & Mum xxx

Happy Christmas everybody! God bless, from the Miles household.

‘Blessed art thou O Christmas Christ, that thy cradle was so low that shepherds, poorest and simplest of earthly folk, could yet kneel beside it … and look level-eyed into the face of God.’

Anon

Virgin Mary billboard sparks outrage in New Zealand – Telegraph http://t.co/opWLa2OQ via @Telegraph

Read about this at: ‘Wake Up Call‘

My son, Jonathan and an Italian Job done%21 – News Articles – http://t.co/4sYlgcNV http://t.co/G0RRj89p Well done, son. Dad