Greetings …

Continuing on from last week, here is another prayer from the Uniting in Prayer Season.  This prayer was written by Rev Rod Fisher, Minister at The Gap Uniting Church, Queensland, while on the Isle of Iona in Scotland, a thin place of prayer, deep spirituality and pilgrimage for generations.

          God who is known and unknown, describable and indescribable,
             Three and One, holy and close, wild and good.

          You meet us in times and places that are thin and thick,
             light and heavy, familiar and unfamiliar, in sunlight and in shadow.

          You are with us when things are still and busy,
             slow and hasty, old and new, open and closed.

          When the path of our life and faith is hard and soft,
             stable and unstable, clear and uncharted, up hills and down valleys.

          Help us to discover times and places of quiet peace amid the noise
             new sounds among the stillness, order out of the chaos,
             joy despite the pain.

          Keep us attentive to your voice among the open and closed,
             the lost and found, friends and strangers, locals and foreigners …

          We pray in the name of the one who is known and yet unknown,
             who seeks us as we try to seek,
             who calls us to remember and be re-membered,
             who is closer to us than this breath.

          Amen.

This is a beautiful reminder that no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in, we are never really alone.

Blessings – Heather (she/her).