THE SIN THAT CLINGS

PRAYER MOMENT Tuesday 3 February 2015 THE SIN THAT CLINGS Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within. Reading: “With so manywitnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too, then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started.” (Hebrews 12:1-4) Reflection. I met someone recently who was setting her mind towards improving her relationship with her husband after a long separation. To witness a person struggling with their hurts and their conscience and coming to something they ‘feel better’ about is a source of wonder and joy. We can become ‘comfortable’ in our sin, that is, in some stance we take up towards others as we think this gives us the freedom we crave for. But sometimes the realisation comes that our stance is not a true one and we are really avoiding what is deepest within. That ‘great crowd of witnesses’ is all the ancestors and people we know or don’t know who are now with God and are cheering us on to be true and drop all that separates us from ourselves and from others. Prayer. Lord, help us to be true; to listen to our conscience, to your Spirit in our hearts. Amen. David Harold-Barry SJ