This is a prayer which captures some of the fullness and paradox of my life in God. I hope it may speak with you.

The SLG order is an Anglican order of cloistered nuns in Oxford, England. Their website is www.slg.org.uk/

I have appreciated a number of their booklets on the contemplative life.

God, let us rise to the edges of time

and open our lives to your eternity;

let us run to the edges of space

and gaze into your immensity;

let us climb through the barriers of sound

and pass into your silence;

and then in stillness and silence

let us adore You,

You who are Life, Light, Love

without beginning and without end,

the Source, the Sustainer, the Restorer,

the Purifier of all that is;

the Lover who has bound earth to heaven

by the beams of a cross;

the Healer who has renewed a dying race

by the blood of a chalice;

the God who has taken humankind into your glory

by the wounds of sacrifice;

God... God... God... blessed be God!

Let us adore you.

Sister Ruth, SLG