PRAYER MOMENT
Friday
28 March 2014
A CYPRESS EVER GREEN
Pause. Be still in
the presence of God.
Reading: “I am
like a cypress ever green, all your fruitfulness comes from me.”Hos 14:2-10,
Mark 12:28-34)
Reflection. Colours
brighten and beautify our days. They have also long been recognised as
conveying their own meaning. Red is for blood and danger; blue for hope and
eternity. Green has always carried the meaning of freshness and life. And those
trees that do not lose their leaves each year, but are “ever green”, convey the
message of God forever giving life and freshness to our weary hearts. Hosea
recognises the sins of the people, but says, come there is new hope, “I will
love them with all my heart, for my anger has turned from them, I will fall
like dew on Israel.” It is a message of enduring hope and the gospel of Mark we
read today puts form and structure into this hope. Our response is to be “to
love God with all your heart,” mind and strength and to love others as we would
ourselves.
Prayer. Lord, help
us to face you, or better, let your gentle look find us. Help us to believe
that you want to welcome us with both arms. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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