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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Paul Mason.

Good morning.

Many people ask about prayer, and frequently seek advice about how to go about it. Jesus was asked for such advice and he gave us the Our Father.
So, in this prayer for the day here is a prayer 鈥渢ool鈥� served as a mnemonic which you may find helpful

T 鈥� Give it Time.

Building relationships takes time. Getting fit takes time. Getting spiritually fit, like getting physical fit requires discipline. Try even 5 minutes each morning, perhaps during exercise, while driving to work. Just get started.

O 鈥� What鈥檚 your Objective in life?

Without an objective we simply run from one activity to another achieving very little. In prayer we discover what we鈥檙e for.

O again 鈥� Openness.

Be brutally honest with yourself. Look in the mirror and name it. Yes, it will bring you face to face with your fragility, your failings, but it is into that very vulnerability that God speaks his compassion.

Finally, L 鈥� Listen.

Many of us have prayer lists of things we want and need. Good. So we should. But what of God鈥檚 list for us? A list calling us to life in the full.
We hear him in Scripture 鈥渃ome to me all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest鈥�.
We hear him in others in others, a word of encouragement or random act of kindness;
We hear him in nature, in the dearest freshness deep down things;
In our conscience, that still small voice.
In the teachings of our faith, seeking to point us on our way.

I sought the Lord and afterward I knew. He moved my soul to seek him seeking me. It was not I that found O Saviour True. No. I was found by Thee.

Amen.

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