PRAYER MOMENT

YOUR KINGDOM COME

Pause. The birds or the traffic will always be there but enter into your own stillness.

Reading. “Your kingdom come!” (Matt 6:7-15)

Reflection. Scholars of the bible today see the whole mission of Jesus summed up in the phrase “the irruption of the reign of God in the world.” An eruption, which we associate with volcanoes, is something that happens “out there,” outside of us. But this is an irruption: it happens within. It happens when people “change their way of thinking” – the real meaning of “repent.” So Jesus calls us to pray: may we all change our way of thinking. Everything else will follow.

Prayer. Lord, you know how used we are to our own ways and our own way of seeing things. Open our eyes and hearts to new ways of seeing things, ways more in harmony with your message in the gospels, even if it costs us something of what it cost you. Amen