Each morning Ben and I pray together, we also pray at noon and 7pm each day too. Click here to read the prayer we pray.
The prayer talks about seeing the Holy Spirit in the refugee family, the migrant worker, the asylum seeker and the unaccompanied child. It dawned on my this morning that each person who fits in these categories are made in the likeness of God, like the rest of us.
It’s a simple Christian truth which undergirds the idea of human rights and equality, that we are all equally valuable. Yet the way mankind treats one another shows that we so often forget this truth.
It struck me that the video recordings I am making of asylum seekers telling their stories is a way of letting us see the Spirit in their lives and stories. Even in the tragedies and loss and pain and suffering many asylum seekers go through, God is seen in their relilience, courage and smiles, if only we took the time to look.
