Praying the Easy Way

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Prayers

If like me you rejoiced at the possibility to put the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Daily Prayer in its pdf form on your Kindle or other e-reader, you will also have discovered like me that it is even more cumbersome to navigate around electronically than in its paper form.

For those of you who have never managed to co-ordinate the jumping from here to there and then back to here you may be wondering how it could be made less user friendly but I can assure you it is.

So I embarked on a little project of my own making Daily Prayer e-reader friendly and now I have got to the stage where I am looking for others who use, or indeed would like to use, Daily Prayer on any electronic device that supports pdf’s to trial it.

So if you are willing and interested then please let me know, but remember it is still a work in progress so don’t expect perfection.

Holding Cross

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Prayers, Religion

Yesterday I was a given a gift, something that until a member of the congregation asked be about a couple of weeks back I hadn’t heard of, a holding cross.

She had asked me about it as a friend of hers, whilst staying in hospital had lost hers, and she was wanting to replace it for her. She finally managed to track down a new one and while buying one for her friend, kindly bought one for me also. It is a wooden cross that is deliberately shaped to be held in the palm of ones hand and whose arms are therefore uneven, the leaflet that came with mine says it beautifully – “A holding cross is designed not so much to look right as to feel right.” The leaflet also has this simple prayer that could be said ‘As I hang on to this cross, Lord, hang on to me.’ Of course part of the beauty of the idea is the fact that words are not needed, the act of holding the cross should bring comfort.

It is a beautiful idea I wish I had known about them sooner as I have known several people who I am sure would have appreciated one, as it is I am now off to find them on line so I can always have one ready to give should the time arise again.