成人快手

A reflection and prayer to start the day with Beverley Humphreys.

Good Morning. At the start of a new day we often make a mental to-do list - a litany of challenges we face. Worries crowd in about health, money, job - and today -World Book Day -which fictional characters the children are going to dress up as for their school zoom lesson !

Or maybe for you, the prospect for today is yet another yawning stretch of monotonous nothingness.

Over this past year, the whole pattern of our days has changed - future plans are uncertain. We wait for news of vaccinations, we long for the company, cuddles and conversation of the people we love. So we wait and wish the time away but maybe that means we鈥榬e losing this moment 鈥� not opening the gift that each God-given moment brings. We鈥檙e getting ready to live again but not actually living now.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said 鈥淒on鈥檛 worry about tomorrow 鈥� it鈥檒l have enough worries of its own鈥�.

Living totally in the present doesn鈥檛 take away the experience of the past or the mystery of the longed-for future, but it can light up the completeness of this minute - that we are alive now and connected to everything around us.

The hidden heart of each moment is there - if we allow ourselves to really look, listen, smell, taste and touch.

So as we prepare and plan for the new day, let鈥檚 savour every sensation 鈥� from the smell of the coffee to the colour of the sunrise.

Living Lord. We know that our life is made up of moments 鈥� help us to live completely the life contained in each moment you give us 鈥� and thank you for it.
Amen

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