Prayer

A young girl recently told her Mum something that stopped me in my tracks. 

She said, “I saw God in the clouds today. 

You know, He was sneaking out in those little rays of light.” 

No big speech, no theology, just a moment of wonder.

My child’s eyes caught something the rest of us 

often miss: light spilling through a cloudy sky, and in it, the quiet presence of God.

It’s easy to think of God in grand gestures like burning bushes,

 parted seas, and voices from heaven, 

but Nano Nagle taught us to seek God in the ordinary, 

the hidden, the everyday. 

That quiet presence, the hand on a shoulder, 

a thoughtful text message, a warm smile from a stranger, 

a cuppa shared without hurry.

Maybe God sneaks out in more ways than we realize, 

not to hide, but to surprise and gently awaken.

 St. John of the Cross reminds us, “God walks into your soul with silent steps.

”Let’s be people who look for light breaking through the clouds, 

classrooms, and conversations, 

and may we learn to trust that God is always near, 

with the knowledge that His “light shines in the darkness, 

and the darkness has not overcome it” 

(John 1:5)