A Tool for Weaving Christ into Your Life

by Br. Ricky OSB-F

Novice Master of the Feline Cloister. He enjoys instructing novices and humans in the fine points of The Rule of St. Benedict.

Pick Up the Shuttle that is Christ

You sit at a loom where the multi-colored threads of your life stretch out in front of you – some are colorful, some may be dark, some may even be laced with tiny gold threads woven in with the cotton or the wool.  Pick up Christ the Shuttle, wound with the threads of His Love.  Draw Him through all the threads of your day.

Before Each Task

As you begin a task, do your best to pick up the Shuttle and weave Christ into what you do and say.  Let Christ help you create a tapestry of beauty and strength that is patterned with his peace.  With Christ as your Shuttle, He will join the threads together into a unified whole.

 

A Prayer for Weaving Christ Into Your Life

Weave my life together, O Christ.
Weave the threads of your grace
    into mine.
Weave my life into you.

Weave my life together, O Christ
    with you, for you.
Weave my life together
until we become a tapestry of
    beauty and strength for all.

Weave my life together, O Christ;
Weave the weft of your grace
    into my day.

Weave my life into yours, Dear One,
    to be with you, to live for you.

I release the threads of my life to you
    so we are
             together
a tapestry of
    beauty and strength.

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