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A blog of thoughts, lessons, and questions encountered by a young, single woman exploring ordination.

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Positioned for Prayer

I am on yet another "lunchtime pilgrimage" today to St.Michael's in Oxford city centre.

As I sit here and admire the comparatively short, low wooden pews; I am almost overwhelmed in this single thought - these pews -and by virture the very functional fabric of this building- are built to facilitate prayer.

To my left, one of the stained glass windows is much lower in the wall than one would expect; so that it's beauty overshadows people in prayer. What an incredibly beautiful image; what a high and lofty challenge - to be a person and a church - arranged to enable prayer.

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