PRAYER MOMENT
Monday
16 February 2015
THE SOUND OF BLOOD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Listen to the sound of
your brother’s blood, crying out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4:1-15)
Reflection. What a metaphor! The sound
of blood. It reverberates through Macbeth. You sense and ‘hear’ the evil of
taking another person’s life. The great
commandment of Jesus was ‘love one another as I have loved you.’ And here is
the great refusal to love which leads to murder. It begins in jealousy, a
feeling that rises up in us from our earliet years when we perceive our sibling
is treated better than we are. We know these feelings and hopefully we learn to
deal with them. But history and today’s media is full of accounts where people
do not deal with them. Drugs, religious fundamentalism, migration and
trafficking – all give rise to treating human life as though it were nothing.
The sounds of death reach to heaven.
Prayer. Lord, inspire all those who
work to build respect for human rights, especially the right to life. Help us
to be people of peace so that the ‘sound’ of our peace may confront the sound
of blood. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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