‘Lord catch me off guard today
Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain
So that at least for the moment
I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendour,
Always and everywhere
Barely hidden
Beneath
Beyond
Within this life I breathe’
Frederick Buechner
Image: Chestnut-tailed starling (Sturnia malabarica), Satchari National Park, Bangladesh
Photo: ‘Touhid biplob’, used with thanks, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence.
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In St Mary’s prayer cycle for June 2020, today we pray for international relations, that the world may come together to tackle the virus.
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