Lord, listen to your children praying.
Lord, send your Spirit in this place.
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Send us love, send us power, send us grace.
Right in this time, right here, we call on God to be with us. Smack in the middle of our everyday doing, we ask for God’s grace. Precisely in the dilemmas and discouragements of living, we ask for God’s power. Immediately, no waiting or bargaining, we ask for God’s love.
Sometimes we think of our lives as a journey. We even speak of
passing away when a friend dies. If life is a pilgrimage, then we need places of nourishment, rest and protection along the way. Medieval pilgrims in Europe wore a shell on their cloak or hat, and looked for the mark of a scallop shell to indicate safe haven.
We find it, too. All along our journey, in all our passages, as pilgrims we find the nourishment, rest and protection our souls need for the living of our days. Believe it: right in this time, right here, in this spot along your journey, as you call on God to be with you, God is. And Sunday, we sang for you:
Lord, listen to your children praying.
Lord, send your Spirit in this place.
Blessings,
The Rev. Dr. Catherine Faith MacLean
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