WHERE YOU WOULD RATHER NOT GO

PRAYER MOMENT                          

Friday 6 June 2014

WHERE YOU WOULD RATHER NOT GO

Pause. Be presence with Jesus and Peter at the lakeside.

Reading: “When you were young you walked where you liked; but when you grow old someone else will take you where you would rather not go.” (John 21:15-19)

Reflection. Ideally, children are free to wander and discover as they wish and young adults are free to choose their path in life. Having made a choice a person finds their earlier freedom restricted and progressively narrowed until choice all but disappears and they are “bound” to the task they have chosen. So it was with Peter as his confusions were resolved and he gave himself totally to the Lord’s business. So it is with us when we focus totally on the life we have chosen. We can describe it as an erosion of our freedom. The fact is it is the opposite. It is the flowering of freedom. To choose and then be utterly bound to that choice is the fulfilment of freedom. We see it in marriage and we see it in the commitment of any professional to their chosen field. It is true of every walk of life.    

Prayer. Lord, teach us to fully engage in the task we are in. Whether it is ideal or not it is my life. Let me find my fulfilment and the coming of your kingdom right there. Amen.

David Harold-Barry SJ