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Even with decreasing daylight hours, a sunrise can often be full of surprises with some beautiful colours. I took this one at Altamount, Millstreet, Co.Cork
Quote For Today😇 “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.” ~
Mindful Prayer🙏: Loving God, help me to believe in myself more. Sometimes I let fear take over and I’m afraid that the branch might break. But I instead need to believe more in myself and I am stronger than any branch. Amen
Video 🎥
This one is called ‘Always drawn to God’s light’
All our swallows have now left Ireland. This one is called – ‘Saying Goodbye To Our Swallows’. If you would like to see a selection of my other videos on Youtube you can click this link here. https://www.youtube.com/@JamesMcSweeneyFr/videos
Thought For The Week
The generations who have gone before us built their lives around Celtic Spirituality. For them God was not something separate or an event that happened occasionally. God was simply a part of their everyday lives, who they felt was with them through every experience of life. Every moment and opportunity was somehow connected to God.
During the weeks of October prayers of thanksgiving for the harvest would take place. It became known as Samhain. The crops were harvested, stored and put away and the next most natural thing to do was to give thanks to God. Sadly as time went on religion became more formalised and structured with dogma. It didn’t happen overnight, but our sense of God in everyday events and moments just got pulled away.
Today there is an acknowledgment and an awareness of just how important it is to get back to the basics of our faith. Why complicate something that doesn’t need to be. Jesus in our Gospels had no time for those who choked and killed the message by making it complicated and out of reach. It is time to begin reclaiming the beautiful simple message that it is.
Yesterday was Mission Sunday and it is also a celebration of the simple and beautiful presence of God’s love in our world today. Many prayers will be for lasting peace in Gaza but also the need for food aid, clean water and vital supplies to get through immediately.
On Mission Sunday we celebrate how many people have dedicated their lives to sharing God’s beautiful love all across the world. Sometimes it has been done in very difficult situations and sometimes in places where there is extreme poverty. Mission Sunday is not about trying to calculate results or evidence of success. We know that wherever the seeds of God’s love are sown and shared there will be a bumper harvest. This is what our ancestors did through Celtic spirituality. For them God meets us where we are. Mission Sunday is a celebration of God’s love everywhere. Without it we have nothing and with it we have everything.
Thought For The Week is updated each Monday
