Interrupters

A few one-minute prayers to help interrupt your day where you can ask God to reveal his infinite love for you. Ideal if waiting for a kettle to boil, or sitting on the train or bus.

If time allows, maybe start with the Prayer of Approach.

Jesus can do a lot in a minute!

God bless, ASD

Prayer of Approach

Heavenly Father, may I become aware of your presence as I enter with heartfelt gratitude.

Jesus, I seek to experience you with every drawn and exhaled breath.

Holy Spirit, I invite you to interrupt my thoughts as a gift from God.

May all that you are help me to become all that I can be.

Amen.

An interruption for anxiety

Dear Lord Jesus, disrupt those

things that hold me in fear.

Where storms rage, bring your

eternal peace.

Where the ground sinks beneath

me, be my rock. Let my anxious

thoughts be turned to hope.

Amen.

An interruption for living water

With my empty jar,

I come to the well.

In secret, I ask you to see me,

to give rest to my soul.

Quench my thirst,

empty me of my burdens

and fill me with living water.

Amen.

An interruption for heavy days

As I begin this day

what else can I say?

Come, Holy Spirit, come!

Meet me in some new way.

Help me be a vessel of your grace.

Touch a world of brutality,

bring your beauty,

demolish the insane.

Fill me with resurrection hope

to see the darkness choked

and driven back.

As I begin this day

what else can I say?

Come, Holy Spirit, come!

Amen.

An interruption for daily surrender

On this day,

I desire to surrender

all of me to you.

To be present, attentive,

open-minded and true.

I will hear your gentle

rebuke and trust

in your goodness.

Amen.

An interruption for knowing God’s presence

My soul longs for

uninterrupted time

alone with you.

But I struggle.

Stir up stagnant waters.

Create a whirlpool

of willingness within me.

May I bathe

in your brightness,

your unquestioning generosity,

and unquenchable love.

Amen.

An Interruption for a fresh start

Challenge my stubborn thoughts

to unlearn old ways.

Help me be courageous

in my next decision.

Prepare me for change,

for the life I don’t yet see.    

In your mercy, come.

Amen.