LET ME SEE

PRAYER MOMENT

Monday 16 November 2015

LET ME SEE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord, let me see again!” (Luke 18:35-43)

Reflection. The Celts have an expression of “seeing with rinsed eyes,” which I take to mean seeing with news eyes. There is much that we see each day but what is it to really see these things. We saw on our screens and in our papers the terrible events in Paris over the week- end. But can we see them with “rinsed eyes,” penetrating their meaning and their message? We see terror, chaos and hatred. But do we end there. How does God see all this? When the bombers and snipers struck in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and ‘80s the same words were used – terror, chaos, hatred. But now there is peace. Why? .

Prayer. Lord, open our eyes to see our attitudes, our reactions and our prejudices in the light of your Spirit. Amen.