PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
5 March 2015
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GREAT GULF
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “But that is not all:
between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to stop anyone, if he wanted
to, crossing from our side to yours, and to stop anyone from your side to ours.”
(Luke 16:19-31)
Reflection. These are devastatingly
final words. After death there is no possibility of change. The time for
decisions is over. We have made them and now we live their consequences for
ever. Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus is one of his sharpest wake up
calls to the Jewish leaders. But, seemingly, like so many other calls to them
it made no impression. We comfort ourselves that it makes an impression on us.
But we must beware. The gulf runs right through us. On one side is our generous
faith; on the other our dark compulsions which we cling to, claiming they are essential
for our comfort. The exciting thing is that we are alive. The gulf is not
uncrossable!
Prayer. Lord, make us attentive to
the hidden compulsions in our life, the things we say are just part of us. Give
us the courage this Lent to look at them and heed your call to conversion. Amen.
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