DESIRES FIGHTING INSIDE YOU

PRAYER PAUSE

Tuesday 17 May 2016   

DESIRES FIGHTING INSIDE YOU

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Where do these wars and battles between you first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting within your own selves?” (James 4:1-10)  

Reflection. Wars that bring havoc and cause migrants to become refugees start within a person. They cannot deal with their anger, frustration, ambition, jealousy, and so forth, and so they project it outwards into violence against others. Then there is war. We know so well what goes on in our own heart and how easily our feelings prompt us to words and actions we later regret. Life in the spirit in every tradition calls for self-control or self-denial – whatever word you want to put on the ability to hold ourselves in as a rider grips the reins of their horse which is rearing to go

Prayer. Lord, teach us that self-control that enables us to be at peace even with those with whom we struggle. Amen.