Misschien ga ik er ooit nog eens naartoe, deze inspirerende gemeenschap in Ierland. Maar voor nu plaats ik graag dit mooie gebed voor de vastentijd.

As we begin the season of Lent, we offer this prayer:

God whose love journeys with us,
God whose love will hold us close:
as we begin these forty days
and venture into deeper truth,
may we move towards an embrace
with a humanity we’ve lost.
May we find in simpler living
that comforts become crutches;
that self-protection suffocates.
And may we then see
in glaring desert light
a love you have for us,
a love that can restore us
to a place of fuller contentment.
Amen. (From Corrymeela)