PRAYER PAUSE
Ash Wednesday 14 February
2018
THE
FAVOURABLE TIME
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “Well, now is the
favourable time; this is the day of salvation.” (2 Cor 5:20-6:2)
Reflection. Joel blows the opening
whistle for Lent (2:12-18) with his call for Isreal to “come back to me with
all your heart.” It is an invitation, a call, to conversion. We may not feel,
as we enter Lent, that we need to “turn back” since we have never left the
Lord. That may be true for many but Lent is also for those who may have left
the Lord and we join in solidarity with them as they seek the way back. But
even for those of us who consider we are regular in our prayer and Chrsistian
living there is a call to go deeper. We cannot rest and say “we know the Lord.” The call comes to us too to allow Jesus to
penetrate our hearts and lives. We want explore how this can be.
Prayer. Lord, help us to enter Lent
with a generous heart; to search for you in our lives, to seek out those
corners where we do not allow you to enter. Amen.
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