Ready to Pray?
The clock of the Stapleton Road chapel in Bristol is permanently stuck at twenty to eight[1]. Blazoned across its face are the words:
Time
to Seek
the
Lord
Four ways to "get ready" together!
This Autumn, I have stripped fruit from more or less every hedgerow in our neighbourhood - no bramble, no elderberry tree was safe! The greatest frustration with foraging is always when you see a promising patch ahead, but as you draw closer you see that only a few of the fruit are ripe, and the rest are still unready. This experience got me thinking about a certain passage in the Gospels...