Text and photo: Britt Arnhild Wigum Lindland
In our home we sing a prayer before every meal (a lovely Norwegian tradition). For a long time I had problems with one of the prayers we sing:
For the gifts you give
we give you our thanks oh Lord.
You, who listen before we pray
praise be to you.
My problem was in "You, who listen before we pray"........what is the use in praying at all if God listen before we pray.......what is the use of talking to God at all?
I am learning along my path of life and today I know it to be true. God listens before I pray because He knows my needs before I do, and when I realise and startspraying it is so much easier to see that God already is there. Walking my path together with me. Some days pushing me ahead, some days carrying me, some days with my hand in his, some days just there beside me, quietly.
Today was one of these days, when he listened before I prayed. I have been at Tautra, the small island in the Trondheim Fjord with the old monastery ruins and the new Maria (St.Mary) monastery. I was there for a conference for work, but in between I had time to walk the whole island. In prayers, talking with my Creator. God surrounded me with his love and comfort.
(More photos tomorrow.....or another day)
