“We bear witness to our faith”
Courage comes from the heart and we are always welcomed by God, the Croí of all being. We bear witness to our faith, knowing that we are called to live lives of courage, love and reconciliation in the ordinary and extraordinary moments of each day. We bear witness, too, to our failures, and our complicity in the fractures of our world. May we be courageous today, may we learn today, may we love today. Amen. This is Corrymeela’s prayer of courage, which heralds every single day at the centre for those who attend morning worship. Spiritually, I am deeply nourished by the daily intentionality, reflection and realignment with our shared values and highest aspirations. But Corrymeela is a place for encountering the Other, and there is one aspect in which I certainly feel challenged to courageously encounter the Other every day here, encompassed in the above in a single, small word. Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the mar...