PRAYER MOMENT
Friday
7 March 2014.
YOUR INTEGRITY
Pause. Be still
in the presence of God
Reading: “Then
will your light shine like the dawn and your wound quickly healed over. Your
integrity will go before you and the glory of the Lord behind you.” (Isaiah
58:1-9)
Reflection. Lent calls
us to a “wholeness” of life where all the pieces fit together. It is no good,
Isaiah says, fasting or saying long prayers if at the same time you are oppressing
other people and quarrelling and squabbling. It can happen that we choose to do
something for Lent which will give us a “feel good” factor but has nothing to
do with the real issues that I should be confronting in my life. You often see
it in politics, the most visible area of life, where leaders do all sorts of “popular”
things but avoid doing the one thing necessary. But it happens in every walk of
life where we ease our conscience by performing some good acts but we avoid the
weightier matters which call out for attention. If Lent is anything it is a
wake-up call to face the real issues.
Prayer. Lord Jesus,
teach us integrity. Give us the courage to face those issues in life we love to
avoid. Today is the favourable day, not tomorrow. May we have the courage to grasp
the moment. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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