PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
23 January 2014
TWO WORLDS
Pause. Be in the presence
of God and imagine the crowds.
Reading. “He
warned them strongly not to make him known.” (Mark 3:7-12)
Reflection. I once
read of a prize giving at a school shortly before the First World War. There
were crowds of proud parents and the students rejoiced in the recognition of
their achievements. But as a reader, knowing what would soon happen, I had a
heavy heart. Many of those happy youngsters would soon be die in the slaughter
in France. “Great crowds,” Mark tells us, followed Jesus and were all “crowding
forward to touch him.” But those crowds had no idea how his mission would be
accomplished on Calvary and they would have found it incomprehensible if he
told them. Are we so different today? We can “enjoy” the crowds, the singing
and the ululating. But what happens when the cross comes into my life?
Prayer. Lord, teach
us to rejoice, even when we discover we are called to share in carrying your
cross. Amen.
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