Prayer for the Day

by Revd Canon David White

4th January 2026 - Epiphany

God of gold, we seek your glory:
the richness that transforms our drabness into colour,
and brightens our dullness with vibrant light;
your wonder and joy at the heart of all life.

God of incense, we offer you our prayer:
our spoken and unspeakable longings, our questioning of truth;
our search for your mystery deep within.

God of myrrh, we cry out to you in our suffering:
the pain of all our rejections and bereavements,
our baffled despair at undeserved suffering,
our rage at continuing injustice;

and we embrace you, God-with-us,
in our wealth, in our yearning, in our anger and loss.   Amen.

This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany – a time of starlight, magi and gifts. We hear the stories of those first pilgrim wise men seeking the new born Jesus; of a dove descending on God’s newly baptised Son, and of water turned to wine in Jesus’s first miracle at the wedding at Cana in Galilee. In hearing these stories, we realise that living as one of us, Jesus will know love and hatred, joy and sorrow, hope and despair, worship and crucifixion. He does not flinch from experiencing fully what it means to be human.

This prayer by the United Reformed Church Minister, Jan Berry, speaks for itself and can be said as we offer the best of who we are as our own gifts to Jesus as we too seek paths of starlight and wonder.