Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 287

Today's Daily 5:

1. Starting off the day with three postcards in the mail from overseas, all now added to my wall of smiles
2. a successful trip to the library
3. a long hot shower
4. coming up with reasons to laugh after coming home to more ridiculous challenges in my living situation
5. a new mouse for my laptop - so nice to have a scroll wheel that works again
6. escapist television
7. the news that two good friends will be joining me at U2 on Wednesday
8. freshly washed sheets and pajamas
9. scented candles and an oil burner
10. Italian wedding soup

A Celtic Prayer

I've been using a little book of Celtic prayers each evening again lately, and last night I was particularly struck by the relevance and beauty of this cry for God's healing grace to descend on the world:

Like light dappling through the leaves of a tree
and wind stirring its branches,
like birdsong sounding from the heights of an orchard
and the scent of blossom after rainfall,
so you dapple and sound in the human soul,
so you stir into motion all that lives.
Let your graces of healing flow this night,
for my soul is wounded
and there is brokenness in my life.
Let you graces of healing flow, dear God,
for those whom I love are in need this night
and there are agonies in the life of the world.
There are agonies in the life of the world, O my soul,
and those whom I love are in pain.