PRAYER MOMENT
Monday
10 February 2014.
TOUCHING THE FRINGE
Pause. Be with
the Lord as he visits “villages, towns
and farms”
Reading. “They
begged him to let them touch even the finge of his cloak.” (Mark 6:53-56).
Reflection. I had
not noticed before that Mark mentions “touching the fringe of his cloak” a
second time. He does it in Chapter 5 and now again here. People often want to
touch celebrities. When the pope came to Zimbabwe and shook hands with someone
he joked he would never wash his hand again! It is not magic but a sense of
connecting, sharing in power and life. In fact in the first case (Mark 5:30)
Jesus noted that “power had gone out from him.” People talk of physical fields
of energy in the world to which we contribute and from which we benefit. This
sounds to me like a parable of what we mean by prayer, except that we are not
talking about “fields of energy” but a person. And this Person is the source of
all energy and life.
Prayer. Lord, you
are the source of grace, that is, of life. Draw us to this source as to an
everlasting spring. Amen.
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