6th October 2013
(First day of summer-time)
3.30: alert wakefulness
Why, Lord?
Half-hour enquiry / mental note-taking
Rise for slow wash, dress-for-walking, coffee
–>> To my oratory-desk for scripture  – from Mark’s Gospel
Lectio-divina
Intercessions:
+ my beautiful soul-mate slowly recovering from cancer-scare during last five months
+ Syria:  ++ Christians were there before Islam; in 2010 6%; the safest country in the Middle East for Christians; now less than half after being caught in the cross-fire between Assad and rebels/Al Quaeda; the city of Homs almost completely cleared of 50-60,000 Christians – their houses have been ransacked and destroyed; 600,000 have fled to Lebanon/Europe; many Christians have been kidnapped for ransom;  some have asked their kidnappers to kill their loved ones rather than have them hideously tortured; many fear the Church in Syria will be completely wiped out. ++ also the 900,000 refugees from the Iraq mess ++ and 600,000 Palestinians
+ the community of St Martins
+ a retreatant, who resumes a two-day journey inwards and backwards through time with me later this morning. Jotted about ten discussion-items…
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Walk into a beautiful pre-dawn
Thank you Lord for a safe, quiet suburb.
Just one other human – a female jogger – three cars (taxi, someone driving home from work/night out; another going to their vocation)
Background music all the way – magpies, currawongs, plovers, wattle-birds, a kookaburra, grey butcher-birds,  (no music from the owl). Possums playing, raucous mating…
Prayed for the occupants of each silent house: remembering another night when at 4 am I happened to be there serendipitously to help a de-hospitalized very sick neighbour into his home and bed after being deposited with his wife on their front verandah by an ambulance, which hurried off…
Thanks for beautiful gardens: some lit by daytime-solared lights…
Home 6 am: to be greeted by the barking of my next-door buddy, Buddy…
And now, 7 am. Breakfast and prayer with Jan…
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