#prayer time

Prayer in the Mosque

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French , 1824-1904)

Date: 1875

Medium: Oil on canvas

Husband, next to me, derping on his phone: “is there anything… wrong? You’ve been praying a lot.”

Me, internally: SIR, there is so much wrong in the world—those people affected by those hurricanes, the election is coming up, countless wars and genocides that I can’t even properly comprehend; personally, I pray for our son every day, not to mention I pray for you every day, my grandmother who has Parkinson’s and my grandfather who has dementia, my aunt and uncle who primarily take care of them; our parish priests; my mom and dad, my brother and his family—

Taken from Grace For The Moment by Max Lucado. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

About a month ago I had a substitute come into the library during volunteer time to ask if I had some space she could use for prayer time.

I said yes and corralled my volunteers into the fiction area of the library, telling the sub that she could close the door to the nonfiction section to have more privacy if she liked, which she did.

My little volunteers were super curious about what was happening, so I explained to them that Muslims need to pray at certain times of the day and it was time for the sub to pray.

"Ooooh!" they said, nodding in understanding.

"I only pray at bedtime, but I'm Christian, not Muslim," one kid piped up.

Help comes when we allow it to ...

enter

wash

heal

nourish