麻豆官网首页入口

A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Fleur Dorrell

Good Morning.

Mid-January is a curious period - after the drama of Christmas While these weeks are not very exciting, they don鈥檛 offer us special symbols, foods or rituals 鈥� they make up much of our lives. As we commute to work - queue at the check outs, banks, clinics and school gates, tackle the domestic chores and dream of holidays and mini breaks 鈥� our in-between times, doing the stuff of life, in every season and at any hour are what make us real.
I welcome our Januarys by embracing the changing light, revising my resolutions and preparing for the next big season. We need these in-between times to learn how to be present and how to move forward, regardless of the journey to come or the path yet to be taken.

Life has never been, nor ever will be, a straight line. Sometimes we wait ages between one moment and the next, or between decisions and outcomes which are not always in our control. Then these in-between times define the stages and shifts, the weeks and months. C.S. Lewis reflecting on this dimension of life once said:
鈥淭he truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one鈥檚 life.鈥�

I pray that during the rest of this January, the in-between times will be fruitful for all of us, that they become a quiet resource of ordinary faithfulness from which we can grow in readiness for the next season.

Amen.