Archive for January 18th, 2007
Prayers for everything
Celtic Christianity fascinates me. Part of my interest is my own Scots-Irish heritage, but I just like the whole Celtic thing. I like the story of Patrick, taken as a slave to Ireland where he tended sheep like David, praying and singing under the night sky. One night God gave him a dream and he walked his way to freedom and found his way home. Then, in that strange twist of providence understood only by Providence, Patrick had a "Macedonian" vision of an Irishman calling for "the shepherd boy" to come and save them. Patrick devoted the rest of his life to bringing the Gospel to the Irish, and there are extraordinary stories of his courage and compassion. In addition to the stories, I like the folksiness of Celtic Christianity, too.
