PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
6 March 2014.
Thursday 6 March 2014.
CHOOSE LIFE
Pause. Be still in the presence of God
Reading: “Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live in the love of the Lord, obeying his voice, clinging to him!” (Deut 30:15-20)
Reflection. Lent begins with a renewal of the basic human impulse to choose. All progress has come from the choices we made and all regression too. Moses calls the people in the desert to choose and in our gospel reading today (Luke 9:22-25) the choice is fleshed out as one of “renunciation”, that is to say, one of constant struggle against the urge to satisfy myself no matter what the consequences to myself and others. I found this sentence hard to write. How would you put it? There is a compulsive selfishness in us with which we battle. It is very basic and appears on the pages of every newspaper. Lent reminds us of this and calls us to look at it seriously in ourselves and the the world we have constructed.
Prayer. Lord, I know there is an inner law which battles against the law that you plant in our hearts. Help us during this precious time to struggle with the evil within and in the world. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
CHOOSE LIFE
Pause. Be still
in the presence of God
Reading: “Choose
life, then, that you and your descendants may live in the love of the Lord,
obeying his voice, clinging to him!” (Deut 30:15-20)
Reflection. Lent
begins with a renewal of the basic human impulse to choose. All progress has
come from the choices we made and all regression too. Moses calls the people in
the desert to choose and in our gospel reading today (Luke 9:22-25) the choice
is fleshed out as one of “renunciation”, that is to say, one of constant
struggle against the urge to satisfy myself no matter what the consequences to
myself and others. I found this sentence hard to write. How would you put it?
There is a compulsive selfishness in us with which we battle. It is very basic
and appears on the pages of every newspaper. Lent reminds us of this and calls
us to look at it seriously in ourselves and the the world we have
constructed.
Prayer. Lord, I
know there is an inner law which battles against the law that you plant in our
hearts. Help us during this precious time to struggle with the evil within and
in the world. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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