PRAYER MOMENT (After and 8 hour power cut!)
Thursday
23 July 2015
A
DENSE CLOUD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: The Lord said to Moses; “I
am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people may hear when I speak to
you and may trust you always.” (Exodus 19:1…20)
Reflection. God longs to come to us.
That is clear from every page of the New Testament. But if he did come fully
“it would be too much for you to bear now” (John 16:12). So he comes in a cloud
– on Sinai and on Tabor – or else in parables. Or he comes through the beauty
of the earth and through the presence of other people in our lives. He comes in
myriad ways but the over all effect may indeed be like a dense cloud. Despite
all the signs and hints we still don’t grasp how close he is to us at every
moment. We are more at home – it is easier – in the density! Yet, the mystics
tell us, our glory is to pierce that “cloud of unknowing” through shafts of
love, reaching out to him at each moment and in every situation. I tried it two
days ago on an eleven hour bus journey.
Prayer. Lord, help us to pierce the
dense cloud that separates us. Dispose us to listen to your word. Amen.
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