BORN FROM ABOVE

PRAYER MOMENT 

Tuesday 14 April 2015

BORN FROM ABOVE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Do not be surprised when I say: ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases; you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes form or where it is going. That is how it is with all those born of the Spirit.” (John 3:7-15).

Reflection. In these forty days of Easter we go back to the early chapters of John and retrace his steps. John speaks of a new world ‘from above’ which we now read in the light of our remembrance of the Passion where it clashed with the world ‘from below.’ It is one year today since the girls were abducted in NE Nigeria. What kind of thinking was it to abduct them in the first place and hold them against their will? What right do their captors have to interfere in their lives and possibly ruin them permanently?  This is a dramatic instance but we know the line between ‘from above’ and ‘from below’ runs right through society and right through each of us. We are darkness and light. Our prayer in the Easter season is for the light to overcome the dark.

Prayer. Lord, we rejoice in sharing in your birth ‘from above.’ May it become ever more real in our lives. Amen.

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