Lord,
today we went to look at
high crosses,
standing stones,
stone circles
and a megalithic tomb
in the hills around Carndonagh –
all evidence
of people searching
centuries and even millennia ago –
searching for a meaning to life,
searching for help
searching for you.

Gazing around me
at the surrounding landscape
I’m conscious that these hills
have changed completely
since these crosses and stones
were erected
slowly and painstakingly
by hand
all those centuries ago.

And yet the people who constructed them
were simply searching
in the same way
that so many of us are searching today.

Gazing upon these Celtic high crosses,
ironically, it’s a French expression
that springs to mind –
plus ça change,
plus c’est la même chose
(the more things change
the more things stay the same).

Lord,
these high crosses
point people towards you
centuries after their construction.
Help me
in my own small way
to point people towards you
in my ordinary, everyday life.

© Claire Murray (10th April 2015)