Greetings, hope all goes well.
I found this book that I had “put away” for safe keeping and it was so well put away, that I forgot where I put it. At long last, I found it. The book is a prayer book from the Iona Community. This is an ecumenical Christian community established by George MacLeod in 1938 on the small island off the cost of Scotland in the inner Hebrides. This community established on the island in the remains of an ancient monastery long empty. This new community of lay persons was established there as a sanctuary of peace and quiet for anyone who would what to spend some time in a place of prayer.
The following is a prayer for the evening. A thought that we might want to ponder after an especially hard day.
EVENING.
“I sit down, Lord,
to watch television,
to write a letter,
to mend clothes,
to rest my feet,
to listen to music,
to read a paper,
to shut my eyes and forget
You sit down, Lord,
to wait for me
to be ready for you.
Help me, among other things
for which I sit,
to remember you
waiting for me.”
(From “Pray Now”)
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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