ordinary, day 3

Come to Stillness:
Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.

Opening Prayer:

i thank you God for most this amazing

day:  for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and the blue true dream of a sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes…

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

                                    ~e. e. cummings

Psalm for the Week: Psalm 98

Scripture for the Day: Exodus 3:1-14

Reflection:

God sent the Spirit of truth, he dwells in your heart.  You have only to listen, to follow, and he will lead you to the complete truth.  He leads through all the events and circumstances of your life.  Nothing in your life is so insignificant, so small (so ordinary), that God cannot be found at its center.  We think of God in the dramatic things, the tempestuous seas; but he is the little things too, in a smile of a passer-by or the gnarled hands of an old man, in a daisy, a tiny insect, falling leaves.  God is in music, in laughter, and in sorrow too.  And the grey times, when monotony stretches out ahead, these can be the times of steady, solid growth into God. (Prayer by Mother Frances Dominica)

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself

Closing Prayer:

Our Father, help us to see you today in all that we come into contact with, knowing that you use ordinary things to give us an extraordinary sense of your presence in our lives.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen. (JLB)