Do it anyway ☀️🙏🏻

Handsome young man, toddler in pushchair, stood just inside the door of Church this morning as I entered. Both of us smiled and without thinking I offered him my powerful prayer. ‘You gave it to me already’, he said. ‘But when’? I asked, surprised.

Turns out, last May, my granddaughter, on her Confirmation day, (in another county of Ireland) asked if I would give one of my prayers to her Teacher. Courageous request, surrounded as she was by her many peers. Courage needed by me too but of course I did it anyway feeling a tad awkward for sure. Even then I knew in my heart it was a special assignment.

To my delightful surprise, here in our Church this morning stood that same teacher.

‘I have your prayer in my car and I take it out sometimes. I can’t tell you I read it every morning though’, he told me. Golden opportunity right there letting this genial young man gently know that to pray my prayer every morning is inviting all of Heaven into his day and that of his whole family.  

He agreed liking what he heard. He took a second prayer too for someone else. I congratulated him on his kind caring teaching ways with my grandchild and countless others and how my granddaughter had told me on numerous occasions how much they loved having him for their Teacher. Gifted young man.

Had my grandchild, prompted by wonderful Holy Spirit on her special Confirmation day, not stepped out in faith last May, our beautiful encounter today would most certainly never have come to pass! Also, he recognised me, I did not recognize him. Had I not offered my prayer spontaneously this morning, as I do, I would have been none the wiser! What a shame that would be.

Holy Spirit’s words in one of my many faltering times, dance into my heart as I write; ‘How can I give you more courage when you do not use the courage you already have in your heart’.

Divine confirmation from on-High, all of it. Bearing this in mind, fellow pilgrims, courageously we shall march on, placing one foot in front of the other, in the gladsome light of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Nothing to fear - Jesus is here!

‘When we know and believe without question or doubt, that in all that we do, God is there to help out. We hold in our hand the golden key, to peace and joy and serenity’. (Helen Steiner Rice)