The ordinary is EXTRAORDINARY!☀️🙏🏻

‘Great occasions for serving God come seldom, 

but little ones surround us daily. (St. Francis De Sales)

Young cheerful guy arrived early to update my ESB metre. Smart metres are all the rage it seems! At my time of life though, it matters little thank God.

My compact cottage tiny, he worked just a few feet from my kitchen table where I sat imbibing Romans:14. St. Paul! What a guy!

‘If we live, we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s’. (Romans 14:8)

Extremely capable young guy, he sang all the while like he was the only one in that place. I love that!. Apart from ‘Good morning’, we spoke not a word, until, packing up his stuff to leave, I ask if he would like a really beautiful morning prayer. Stopping in his tracks smiling he uttered; ‘I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t prayed in a long time’. ‘No problem’, I reply. ‘Pray it every morning and all of Heaven will be minding you’. 

(Of course I offered him tea too but he already had some).

Holy Spirit wonderful wisdom danced into my heart right then and I spoke it aloud; ‘I cannot promise you nothing will be wrong but you will be strong’. 

I shared with him that I had received those comforting words some time ago when a lovely young guy, much like himself, gave me that exact reply; ‘I haven’t prayed in a long time’.

Tad surprised, he read and loved my powerful prayer, taking one for his girlfriend too. He even took one for the guy in Head-Office who set up our meeting. 

I asked if he had ever before received a prayer from a client. His words lifted my heart no end;  ‘No! I must have converted at least one thousand meters and not until today did I receive a prayer. You are one in a thousand’. Both of us laughed.

Precious moments like this remind me that Christ is alive and He wants each and everyone of us to be alive. Service joyfully!!

‘In this day and time, when the Faith is in danger of dying out like a flame that no longer has fuel, the overriding priority is to make the Face of God present’. (Pope Benedict)

                                             Seven days without Prayer makes one weak.

‘Not to pray, not to be a true Christian, is to declare a reluctance to live life to the full. It is the choice of a small, warm, selfish life. It would be like Rembrandt refusing to paint because he could live on his wife’s money’. (Sr. Wendy)