Episode 27: Christ in All Things

Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today's episode features a prayer from Celtic prophet and Scottish clergyman George MacLeod. He modeled this prayer after the familiar Prayer of St. Patrick in which Christ is sought in all things. More information on George MacLeod can be found in Sacred Earth Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell. May these words by kind companions along your journey. 

 

 

“Christ above us, Christ beneath us,

Christ beside us, Christ within us.

 

Invisible we see you, Christ above us.

With earthly eyes we see above us clouds or sunshine,

                grey or bright.

But with the eye of faith, we know you…

                instinct in the sun ray,

                speaking in the storm,

                warming and moving all creation, Christ above us.

 

Invisible we see you, Christ beneath us.

With earthly eyes we see beneath us stones and dust

                and dross…

But with the eye of faith, we know you uphold.

In you all things consist and hang together:

                The very atom is light energy,

                the grass vibrant,

                the rocks pulsate.

All is in flux; turn but a stone and an angel moves.

Underneath are the everlasting arms.

Unknowable we know you, Christ beneath us.

 

Inapprehensible we know you, Christ beside us.

With earthly eyes we see men and women, exuberant or dull,

                tall or small.

But with the eye of faith, we know you dwell in each.

You are imprisoned in…the dope fiend and the drunk,

dark in the dungeon, but you are there.

You are released, resplendent, in the loving mother,

…the passionate bride,

and in every sacrificial soul.

Inapprehensible we know you, Christ beside us.

 

Intangible, we touch you, Christ within us.

With earthly eyes we see ourselves, dust of the dust, earth of

                the earth.

But with the eye of faith, we know ourselves all girt about of

                eternal stuff,

                                our minds capable or divinity,

                                our bodies groaning, waiting for the revealing ,

                                our souls redeemed, renewed.

Intangible we touch you, Christ within us.

 

Christ above us, beneath us, beside us, within us, what need

                have we for temples made with hands?”

                                                         -George MacLeod The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona Prayers

 

• A prayer by George MacLeod from his book The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona Prayers
• Sacred Earth Sacred Soul by John Phillip Newell
• Music is The Way by Asher Lee from Uppbeat 
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