HE WAS GOING TO PASS THEM BY

PRAYER MOMENT

Monday 8 January 2014

 HE WAS GOING TO PASS THEM BY

Pause. Be still in the presence of God.

Reading. “He was going to pass them by … but they cried out.” (Mark 6:45-52)  

Reflection.  The poet G.M.Hopkins spoke of God revealing himself in “ten thousand ways” but we are often so engaged in what occupies us that we don’t notice. In today’s passage the disciples are worn out “for the wind was against them” but they did notice him though he looked as if he would pass them by. There is a similar account in Luke 24 where the disciples are going to Emmaus and Jesus “made as if to go on.” In both cases they have the wit to grasp the moment and to invite him to come into their boat or to stay with them in the inn. Looking back at our Christmas break we may say it was good. But does that good include moments when we grasped that the Lord is with us and if we don’t “grab” him he may pass us by?

Prayer. Lord, you are there but often I do not notice. Help me to find you in all things. Help me to see you, not just in church or in prayer, but in every moment with every person and every event of my day  Amen.