“Prayer walking is a way of saturating a particular place and people with prayer... This type of intercession intentionally invites people to go to the site of their concern: the office, the conference room, the dining room, the kitchen, the school, the hospital, the government buildings. The immediacy of context can fuel prayer and offer a way for listening more deeply to God, to what [God’s] concerns for this place might be.“
From Spiritual Disciplines Handbook by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun.
We went to Edinburgh Old College and prayed for the work of the University and those working there as we walked around the lawn twice. Ideas of each person being empowered and feel God’s love in their day to day focused our prayer.
We went to the Talbot Rice Gallery and wandered the exhibit praying for the artists, many students of the University sharing concerns about Twitter and our world. Prayer that we all may find better communication and relations.
As was found: ‘Alone, in our separate kinds of expertise and experience, we know both too much and too little, and so we succumb to despair or to hope, and neither is a sensible attitude. Neither despair nor hope is tuned to the senses, to mindful matter, to material semiotics, to mortal earthlings in thick co-presence.’ - Donna J. Haraway from ‘Staying with the Trouble.’
And we wandered the Meadows and back to Church praying for the people at sport, relaxing over barbecues, and the magic trick performing beggar, and so many more that they may all enjoy being alive, and food and friendship, and simple pleasures of being in the sun.
May the Holy Spirit work in all of these spaces, bringing us all towards the love of God.
