PRAYER MOMENT
Monday
20 January 2014
NEW WINE, FRESH
SKINS!
Pause. Be in the presence
of God.
Reading. “Nobody
puts new wine into old wine skins; if he does, the wine will burst the
wineskins, and wine is lost and the skins too. No! New wine, fresh skins!” (Mark
2:18-22)
Reflection. How
much we long for continuity! For what is familiar! Then we know where we are.
We are disturbed and find ourselves off-balance when new things come. So it was
in the time of Jesus. He disturbed people. Even his closest followers had a
hard time understanding the “new wine”. So it is today. People feel threatened
by fresh ideas, new ways of doing things. For example, the words and ways of
the Bishop of Rome are upsetting some people who are used to the old. So it is
in society, in politics, in culture. We are invited to change. We have to sift,
of course; not everything new is good. But we are called to change.
Prayer. Lord, teach
me to be open to what comes to me; to welcome what I sense is good even if it
disturbs me and will make me change my ways. Amen.
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