OF ITS OWN ACCORD

PRAYER MOMENT  

Friday 31 January 2014

OF ITS OWN ACCORD

Pause. Be still in the presence of Jesus as he speaks to his disciples.

Reading. “Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, and then the full grain in the ear.” (Mark 4:26-34)  

Reflection. The farmer prepares the ground, sows the grain, waters and weeds it. But then he waits. The joy of the farmer is to come one morning to his field and see the growth which has happened “of its own accord.” A parent does everything for their child but then he or she has to just wait. There is an energy, a divine energy, at work and – after doing everything we can – we wait and accept what comes next. It is a joyful waiting for we know that “whatever happens it will be for the best.” These were the words of Sir Thomas Moe to his daughter Meg after he had done everything to defend himself and then he waited calmly and with an inner joy for his own death.

Prayer. Lord, teach us to do all we can in our circumstances and then let wait peacefully and with inner surrender for what happens. “It will be for the best” even if it does not look like it.  Amen.