PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday
25 June 2014
BY THEIR FRUITS YOU WILL KNOW THEM
Pause. Be still
in the presence of God.
Reading: “A sound
tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a rotten tree good fruit … you will be able to
tell them by their fruit.” (Matt 7:15-20)
Reflection. Sometimes
Jesus used to say the most obvious things but still the message does not get
through. A person may be pretty or handsome, qualified or powerful, but at the
end of the day the question is what has she or he done? What effect have they
had? Has anything changed as a result of their life? And this does not mean
that a person should worry about the results, how things actually work out.
They may end in disaster, as they did for Jesus. But is the tree sound? Is the
person good? That is the question. Is he or she living their life for others,
generously searching for ways of doing what they have to do each day in the
most imaginative attentive way? That is all. The rest is not their business.
Who eats the fruits is not the concern of the tree.
Prayer. Lord, teach
us to be generous and not to count the cost or calculate the benefits. Let us
do what we are called to do and leave the rest to you. Amen..
David Harold-Barry SJ
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