Be open to the night…
Pray with open hand, not with clenched fist…
Shapes loom out of the darkness, uncertain and unclear: but the hooded stranger on horseback emerging from the mist need not be assumed to be the bearer of ill…
The night is large and full of wonders…
Lord Dunsany
This is one of my favourite Northumbria Community meditations. The night is large and full of wonders- who knows what amazing thing is out there, unseen by us, waiting to be revealed If only we would be more open to it. It's in our nature to be afraid of the unseen and unknown, but this reminds us that not all those unseen things are bad.
We like our traditions when it comes to Christmas, we like the comfort of the familiar. Who knows what we might experience if we're more open to different experiences, traditions and cultures this year?
Today I found joy in wrapping Christmas presents, I was thankful for offers of oranges to make Christingles and I felt helpless about the relationship between some Christian groups and far right politics.
Scripture
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
Psalm 8:3-4
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