There are new wards in our hospitalsThey are not extensionsThey are not repurposed roomsThey are the corridors in A and EThe place where journeys take placeFor a hundred reasonsAlongside patients waiting for a placeAway from the constant noiseGlare of lightsAnd other patients on the move. And I just want to say: Thank God for the

Let us Pray: Pour forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy grace into our hearts; that, we to whom the incarnation of Christ, thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by his passion and cross, be brought to the glory of his resurrection, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

The English evangelist, John Wesley, wrote in his journal that, ‘The end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew of your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves; to fix the sense of those wants more deeply in your hearts, and the sense of your continued dependence on Him who

“Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be Holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work too, may be Holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is Holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is Holy. Guard me, then, O Holy

“We are faced then with a frightening alternative. The man we are talking about either was (and is) just what He said, or else insane or something worse. Now it seems obvious that He was neither insane nor a fiend; and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and