Pray the News
Imaginative prayers
Put yourself in the picture
- Read or recall the news item
- Imagine a scene based on the news and place yourself in it
- Who are you? What do you see? How do you feel? What is being said?
- Say a word to God
- Be Still
- Write something down on in a notebook or online in the forum
Take Jesus with You
“We are Blind and don’t see Jesus in the ordinary things of life. We are deaf and do not hear him challenging us as we go about our daily affairs.” Michel Quoist
- Read or recall the news item
- Imagine a scene based on the news and place Jesus in it
- What is happening? What is being said? Where are you in all this?
- Listen to what Jesus is saying
- Be Still
- Write something down on in a notebook or online in the forum
Seeing the world with God’s eyes
We see only the surface of things and of human being To go deeper and to see the world as God, we need a different way of looking. We need the ‘eyes of faith” grafted onto our human eyes
- Read or recall the news item
- We are God’s children and through Christ we have become sharers in the very life of God. Take yourself in the life of the living God. With your eyes of faith, see what God sees
- What do you see? How do you feel? What is being said?
- Say a word… Listen for God’s word
- Be Still
- Write something down on in a notebook or online in the forum
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