Christ, you are within each one of us.
Nearer are you than breathing,
closer than hands and feet.
Ours are the eyes with which you, in the mystery,
look out with compassion on the world.
Take us outside, O Christ, outside holiness,
out to where soldiers curse and nations clash
at the crossroads of the world.
We ask it for your name's sake.
Amen.
George MacLeod was the founder of the Iona Community.
This prayer can be seen as a word to all the pilgrims who come to the ancient abbey on Iona. In this thin place many experience holiness. This prayer reminds us that God gives us holy experiences in special places to go with us back to the world charging and changing us as a result.
