My Friend Fionnuala
On a dark day some years ago now I asked my friend Fionnuala to pray for me and my family who were suffering from the effects of alcohol addiction. She laughed. “Well now,” she said,” I’m not great at the praying but I could clean my cooker for you. “I hate cleaning the cooker,” she continued. “I could offer that up.”
Domestic violence, child sexual abuse and abuse of the elderly are commonplace.
Closed in together as families are now is like a tinder box waiting to ignited or a pressure cooker waiting to explode.
Action speaks louder than words, they say.
If praying words is not your thing, could I ask you to tackle a chore or task you have been putting off and offer it up that the hands and feet that abuse be stilled this Easter Day.
Gemma Hill April 2020
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