Saturday 23 August 2025 - Most fully alive

Saturday 23 August 2025

Welcome to the Saturday Examen. Each Saturday we devote a time of prayer to looking back over the week that’s passed. The prayer invites God to show us more clearly where and how God has been active in our week. We also look at how we’ve responded to what God has been doing. Start today’s prayer by asking for that clearer vision of God’s presence. So what’s the first thing that you remember as you review the week? Stay with that for a moment or two, and re-live it here and now. Now let the whole week unfold again before your mind’s eye. What are the peaks and the troughs, the lights and the shadows? Where and when have you found yourself most fully alive? What’s your sense of what God has been doing with you this week? What are the particular gifts you’ve been given, in people, or events, or encounters? And how have you responded to what God’s been doing? How do you want to respond now? Speak to God about what’s been drawn to your attention in this time of prayer. Lastly, look forward to the week ahead. Where you’ll be, and what you’ll be doing. What do you need from God in the coming days? Whatever it is, ask God for it now. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be World without end Amen