Requests for prayer If you would like St Mark's pastoral team to include anything in their prayers, please type it into the box below and click the button. This service is completely anonymous (unless you include your name). When you click the button, your request will be forwarded by email to people in St Mark's who will remember your thoughts in their prayers. Asking for Christ’s Forgiveness By Eric Symes Abbott It does seem that people Come to themselves when They are able to repent and Certainly when they are forgiven. Love when it is true longs To forgive. Forgiveness does not Mean forgetting; it means Remembering the past in a new way. When we ask for Christ’s forgiveness, The effect is that in so far as The past is remembered again, It will have lost its power to hurt us And make us afraid. Goodness is stronger than evil, Love is stronger than hate, Light is stronger than darkness, Life is stronger than death. In this place where I have seen despair give us all hope Desmond Tutu All requests are initially forwarded to Richard or Cynthia, who will forward them on as appropriate. Here is an interesting prayer on Woman, spotted at the Kairos Centre.

Unless the eye catch fire The God will not be seen Unless the ear catch fire The God will not be heard Unless the tongue catch fire The God will not be named Unless the heart catch fire The God will not be loved Unless the mind catch fire The God will not be known William Blake