WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

PRAYER MOMENT  

Tuesday 14 January 2014

 WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Pause. Imagine the place. Jesus in Capernaum announcing the good news.

Reading. “The people were so astonished they started asking each other what it all meant. “Hear is teaching that is new,” they said, “and with authority behind it.”  (Mark1:21-28)  

Reflection. Perhaps it is hard for us to recapture the astonishment and surprise of people when they first came into contact with Jesus. Maybe we are too “used” to him. We know about his life, his arrest, his death and resurrection. It is all familiar to us. That is why we need to keep coming to scripture “with rinsed eyes.” We need to approach it as always revealing something new, just as people always surprise us. We cannot predict how they will react. So also, we cannot predict what we will find in the scriptures. There is always something new, something to astonish those who search. We need to be quiet and still and listen.

Prayer. Lord, you are forever fresh and new and “green” (St Hildegaard of Bingen). You are the “God of Surprises.” Teach me to be ever open to what you wish to reveal to me and to all your people today.  Amen.