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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angad Kaur

Prayer for the Day with Angad Kaur

Good Morning.

Even though I wasn鈥檛 brought up in a family home with any religious faith, since becoming a Chaplain, I鈥檝e had many conversations about what God is or could be with a wide range of people. These exchanges have taken place on train platforms, tubes, buses, and have provided unexpected and also insightful explorations about something that can be both hard to identify and also very personally clear for some.

A reference or proposition I return to often is very practical - the letters G. O. D. representing the Generating, Organising and Delivering force that moves all things in the universe.

One day in my local temple, observing a group of volunteers in the kitchen preparing food, I had a realisation.

The volunteers had GENERATED a shopping list and the necessary ingredients. They ORGANISED themselves into washing, chopping and cooking tasks. They then DELIVERED the cooked food to anyone who was hungry.

This was G.O.D. in action! It demonstrated to me an energy or force active within each of us and we can decide how to direct or express it. The temple prepares food each day for people from all walks of life. This, in itself, I realised is seeing the God in all and serving the spirit in all without needing any spoken declaration or explanation.

Dear God, whoever is providing my lunch today, I鈥檒l offer thanks for their service. But may I also keep remembering that through action and interactions with others, I鈥檓 given the opportunity to continue discovering and knowing you in a way that can be both mystical and very practical.

Sat Naam

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