Light and Love
O Salmon leaping like lightning from the womb,
bursting above cascades of chaos climbing Love’s deadly ladder,
come and sow your blood and burning water, at the ancient source of all our sorrow:
drowning, you destroy death; leaping, you lead us to life: O Ichthus, come in glory.
Jim Cotter ‘Cries of Advent’ No 11.
From Prayer in the Morning, Cairns Publications 1989.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness — on them light has shined.
Isaiah 9: 2
Let us pray for the Diocese of The Murray; for the people near
that mighty river which is in so much danger of destruction;
for farmers, timber workers, and refugees earning a living at the slaughter works
and for the faithful scattered congregations and especially for the work of AMUA in Naracoorte.