Anglican Prayer Beads
I often wonder about senendipity and coincidence. As a Christian I chalk them up to our Lord's presence and Grace. It may not be clear at first why I mention this but read on.
Recently I was in Halifax and at their Anglican Book Room my eye was led to a display of Anglican Prayer Beads. Now if you have read my spiel on the "pastor" link you will be aware that I grew up broad church-evangelical and later attended a very high-church; of course as any Anglican would, after all this exposure, I settling into the "media": the middle. Knowing full well that I am always keen on spiritual aids that draw us closer to the Holy Trinity and into a deeper prayer life, I picked two sets up; one for me and one as a gift.
They came with two very lovely plastified cards with a history and description of "Anglican" beads and the method, as it were; and the other card with four prayers drawn from the Office, Celtic Prayer, Julian of Norwich and the Trisagion. Once home I entered into this form of prayer. I found it very helpful and "Celtic" in it's cyclic approach. I left my beads on the table and carried on with my day.
When I got back into my bedroom...
Isn't Pippa a dear, she must have tried to pray and got all caught up ;-) ripping her way out! Eghads I was upset. Not only was my set gone... I'm missing two days (two beads of red), the gift of the blue set was utterly destroyed! My, oh my, I forgot the "terrible twos," obviously it was my fault for leaving them down.
Well once again isn't it odd how God just flashes things before our eyes. Low and behold I went on the Diocesan site today and what was this week's headline: "Formation through preparation at St. John's, Oromocto." And it was about praying the beads with children. Check out the site I later found:
Anglicanbeads
I encourage you to further investigate this discipline of prayer and if you have small children avoid the breakable coloured glass beads and go for the simple rope and wood; serves me right for being so bourgeois.
Recently I was in Halifax and at their Anglican Book Room my eye was led to a display of Anglican Prayer Beads. Now if you have read my spiel on the "pastor" link you will be aware that I grew up broad church-evangelical and later attended a very high-church; of course as any Anglican would, after all this exposure, I settling into the "media": the middle. Knowing full well that I am always keen on spiritual aids that draw us closer to the Holy Trinity and into a deeper prayer life, I picked two sets up; one for me and one as a gift.
They came with two very lovely plastified cards with a history and description of "Anglican" beads and the method, as it were; and the other card with four prayers drawn from the Office, Celtic Prayer, Julian of Norwich and the Trisagion. Once home I entered into this form of prayer. I found it very helpful and "Celtic" in it's cyclic approach. I left my beads on the table and carried on with my day.
When I got back into my bedroom...
Isn't Pippa a dear, she must have tried to pray and got all caught up ;-) ripping her way out! Eghads I was upset. Not only was my set gone... I'm missing two days (two beads of red), the gift of the blue set was utterly destroyed! My, oh my, I forgot the "terrible twos," obviously it was my fault for leaving them down.
Well once again isn't it odd how God just flashes things before our eyes. Low and behold I went on the Diocesan site today and what was this week's headline: "Formation through preparation at St. John's, Oromocto." And it was about praying the beads with children. Check out the site I later found:
Anglicanbeads
I encourage you to further investigate this discipline of prayer and if you have small children avoid the breakable coloured glass beads and go for the simple rope and wood; serves me right for being so bourgeois.
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