Wednesday, 3 December 2014

THE EVERLASTING ROCK

PRAYER MOMENT 


Thursday 4 December 2014


THE EVERLASTING ROCK
             

Pause. Be still in God’s presence.


Reading: “Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord is the everlasting Rock; he has brought low those who live high up in the steep citadel.” (Isaiah 26:1-6)


Reflection. I am now by the sea and it is constant motion; it attacks the rocks and recedes eternally. They remain unmoved no matter the force of the waves. No wonder the rock was dear to the psalmists and the prophets, and was taken up by Jesus with the image of the man building his house on rock and the new name he chose for Simon. But the image deepens when we have Jesus asleep in the boat and the waves breaking over the side and the disciples terrified. ‘Why did you doubt?’ ‘Well, why not when there was nothing solid beneath us?’ Jesus calls us to go deeper and find that solid foundation within where he dwells. It is easy to say but here it is: Unemployment, poverty, illness or political woe – nothing can disturb such faith. True, you cannot tell a poor man to go and pray and do nothing to help him. But the call remains; ‘trust in the Lord’ whatever our circumstances.


Prayer. Lord, help us to build on rock even when we ache with pain. Help us to reach  deep within to find where you live in us. Amen.  
David Harold-Barry SJ











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