Trailing clouds of glory do come from God,
who is our home.
Those shadowy recollections,
be they what they may,
are yet the fountain light of all our day.
I love those words from William Wordsworth. Trailing clouds remind me of prayer, the way the feeling from prayer can follow us all day.
Here is an idea for Lent: let’s pray each day, at a different time each week. Each week I will send you a prayer for a different part of the day. At Easter you may put them together and frame the whole day in words of prayer.
For this week: on first waking.
Deliver this day
into your gentle hands
that I may stop
fretting the dawn away
like a few extra pounds or another errand.
Open this day
in your gentle breath
that I may greet
the surprises and routine of today,
present,
present. Amen.
Blessings on you, as you feel God’s trailing clouds around you.
The Rev. Dr. Catherine Faith MacLean
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