We have invited the writer of the prayers for week 1 to concentrate on prayers that will help us all slow down and experience the impact of being refreshed. It is not enough to simply rest it is essential that our resting brings with it a time of refreshment and re-energising. Our prayers will be engaging with a plea that our bodies, souls and spirits might be refreshed. There is also a need for the world around us and our environment to be refreshed.