This is my first week back with my new friends in Refuge, after the first real holiday break in 2 years. As a result I am in a very rested place and find it possible to evaluate and see things a little more clearly than this time last year - to see and feel my function in facilitating these groups.
The true function is that I pick up these women and carry them in my heart before the Lord! I could feel it all of Wednesday night, a constant conversation. And again the same thing on Thursday.
It feels as if, way beyond what may be taught or learned, the love of God embraces and begins to work in and with them, and they respond quickly and openly to that love. I am encouraged to think that somehow without my fully comprehending it, this has indeed become prayer.
It was not that the circumstances had to change as much as my heart had to be enlarged and expanded for the task - this is what has taken time.
For many years I have asked the Lord that I would not 'do' prayer but become a prayer in action in all of life - it feels this year as if I might actually have my foot on the first rung of the ladder. He is indeed the God who answers!
Mother Teresa said "Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment."
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