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05/09/2020
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Venerable Dr Rosemarie Mallett
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Sat 5 Sep 2020
05:43
91热爆 Radio 4
Prayer for the Day
Good morning,聽
The first weekend in September beckons us into the start of a new day.聽But not quite yet. In the Caribbean we call this time of the day foreday morning, which is another way of saying before the day is dawning,聽that liminal time and space before night ends and day breaks into being. I especially love this time of the day. When the light is ethereal,聽the dew hangs on the air, and the coming day is still a way off 鈥� whatever it will entail.聽
This weekend is the first after school has started back for some children and young people.聽The week has been the dress rehearsal for all that will come as public life as we know it restarts more fully.
But 2020 so far can never be forgotten聽 and summer鈥檚 usual gentle indolence of holiday time聽聽conjoined with the heated dynamism of black lives matter protesters breathing new life into old songs of freedom.
As summer fades away, and the new autumn term hurries us back into work and school life, some will be seeking desperately to refresh old rhythms of doing and being,聽l, while others are unsure, fearful of what the coming months may bring.
Yet, despite the uncertainty that we are having to live with,聽 nature continues to carry us聽 through the seasons of life,the end of summer, the beginning of Autumn, the fall of leaves, the gathering in of harvests, the continuation of the divine rhythm of life.聽聽
O Lord, this morning, as daylight breaks through the remnants of darkness,聽we give thanks that the hope that lies within that divine rhythm continues to spring eternal.聽
Amen
The first weekend in September beckons us into the start of a new day.聽But not quite yet. In the Caribbean we call this time of the day foreday morning, which is another way of saying before the day is dawning,聽that liminal time and space before night ends and day breaks into being. I especially love this time of the day. When the light is ethereal,聽the dew hangs on the air, and the coming day is still a way off 鈥� whatever it will entail.聽
This weekend is the first after school has started back for some children and young people.聽The week has been the dress rehearsal for all that will come as public life as we know it restarts more fully.
But 2020 so far can never be forgotten聽 and summer鈥檚 usual gentle indolence of holiday time聽聽conjoined with the heated dynamism of black lives matter protesters breathing new life into old songs of freedom.
As summer fades away, and the new autumn term hurries us back into work and school life, some will be seeking desperately to refresh old rhythms of doing and being,聽l, while others are unsure, fearful of what the coming months may bring.
Yet, despite the uncertainty that we are having to live with,聽 nature continues to carry us聽 through the seasons of life,the end of summer, the beginning of Autumn, the fall of leaves, the gathering in of harvests, the continuation of the divine rhythm of life.聽聽
O Lord, this morning, as daylight breaks through the remnants of darkness,聽we give thanks that the hope that lies within that divine rhythm continues to spring eternal.聽
Amen
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